Union Magazine - Fall 2014

Union DE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL

“Instructed…”

Teachers on the Art of Teaching, Students on the Art of Learning Fall 2014

“When the Game Stands Tall” • Meet the Youngest Spartans of All The STREAM Center: The Education of the Future is Now L The Brotherhood of the Spartan is Like No Other L

Message from the President

“Instructed” is the second of our three essential verbs.

Mark DeMarco ’78 President

Our love for our students must manifest itself in effective instruction.

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The Lasallian educational mission began in the 17th century, when a thirty-year-old French priest, John Baptist de La Salle, realized that God was calling him to do one particular thing with the rest of his life: He was to devote himself to making education accessible to children who needed it but could not afford it.

He developed a new brotherhood of likeminded men who were willing to be teachers.

They became a religious community, calling themselves the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

From the beginning, this ministry has been dedicated to just one thing: education. This devoted group of educators was soon invited by pastors to take over the management of parish schools intended to serve the poor. And where there was a need for a new school to serve the local people, the Brothers would often find a way to start one.

Saint La Salle was determined that these good works would also be effective works: It’s one thing to start a school; it’s another thing to run it, staff it, sustain it, and have it truly serve its students. The Founder made clear in all his writings that the education provided in these schools was to be practical, effective, and wellrounded, imparting needed academic skills while also enriching the students’ spiritual lives, broadening their horizons, and preparing them to function in society. One of his best-known directives on educational quality is this: “The Christian schools should be in no respect inferior to others; parents who give them preference on moral and religious grounds should not have occasion to regret that their children do not find therein all other educational advantages.”

He wrote this three hundred years ago, and we still take his words to heart today. Parents who give De La Salle High School “preference on moral and religious grounds” should be sure that their sons will find here “all other educational advantages” as well. Among these “educational advantages” we count our excellent program of studies and our remarkable faculty and staff.

You can read in this issue about these facets of our school. Better yet, you can hear young alumni and current students reflect upon the value that this education has added to their lives.

We are also committed to providing facilities that will match our faculty’s talent and our students’ potential. Now under construction on campus is a state-of-the-art, multi-disciplinary building called The STREAM Innovation Center (Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), which will be ready for use next school year. It is one of the projects in our 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign. Your support with this project, and all of the Capital Campaign projects, is needed and welcome. You can read about it in this issue, and learn more on the special Capital Campaign section of our website. And there will be more information coming to you, by mail and e-mail.

Thanks to all of you who are already “early investors” in the Campaign, as well as to all of our parents, alumni, and faculty/staff donors.

Your names are proudly listed in this issue.

It has been a busy and exciting summer and fall. The class of 2014 graduated in May, we broke ground for the STREAM Innovation Center in June, our little brother school De La Salle Academy opened in early August, and the film When the Game Stands Tall was released nationally in late August. Reports on all of these wonderful events are found in these pages.

As noted in the latest issue of the Union (Spring 2014), our Mission Statement says that De La Salle High School is a place “where students are loved, instructed, and guided.” In that issue, we explored the meaning of “loved” as our first foundational verb. In this issue, we move on to the second of our three essential verbs, “instructed.”

As Lasallian educators, we realize that if our love for our students does not manifest itself in effective instruction of them, then we are not being true to our Mission. I think you will find in this magazine evidence that the Mission is alive and well.

In the spirit of Saint John Baptist de La Salle,

Mark DeMarco ’78 President

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PRESIDENT’S CABINET

Mark DeMarco ’78 President

Brother Robert J. Wickman, F.S.C. Principal

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE

Lynne Jones Chief Financial Officer

Heather Pastorini Chief Advancement Officer Produced by the Office of Advancement

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The School Seal

The school seal is an important part of the identity of De La Salle High School.

The symbols used to make up the seal have particular meanings that reflect the values and purpose of the school. In the center of the seal is the Chi Rho (Kye Row). This is the Greek abbreviation of the title “Christ.” The first two letters of the word Christos or “Christ” are “Chi” and “Rho,” represented in the Greek alphabet as a capital “X” and “P.” The fleur-de-lis, with “lis” meaning lily in French, reminds us of our French origins with Saint John Baptist de La Salle. The lamp is a symbol of knowledge, reminding us of our primary purpose as a school — education. The section of broken chain represents freedom — freedom from ignorance. The chain surrounding the seal signifies strength and unity. “Les Hommes de Foi” is French for “Men of Faith.”

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On instruction and instructors

Young alumni scientists praise De La Salle

A senior confronts the world’s water problems

Sophomores do innovative science and technology The STREAM Innovation Center

Facing up to learning disabilities

The well-instructed Class of 2014

“Teaching is the greatest profession.”

“When the Game Stands Tall”

De La Salle Academy: our youngest Spartans Financial Report 2013-2014

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Honor roll of parent donors

Honor roll of faculty and staff donors Honor roll of alumni donors

Gratitude from a Bishop Cummins Scholar

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Alumnus of the Year and Hall of Fame What’s happening, classes?

In Memoriam

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About the cover: “Where students are loved, instructed, and guided.” The Spring 2014 issue of the Union examined the meaning and practice of “love” as the foundation of education here at De La Salle. When hearts are touched, minds can be opened, and students can explore the world of education without fear. They can develop profound spiritual lives, form richer characters, establish good intellectual habits, and achieve deeper understandings—truly becoming men of faith, integrity, and scholarship. Our cover captures a few moments of teachers and students hard at work, in the satisfying process of giving—and receiving—a Lasallian education.

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LOVED, INSTRUCTED, GUIDED

“De La Salle High School is a Roman Catholic educational community where students are loved, instructed, and guided according to the

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traditions of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and the charism of Saint

John Baptist de La Salle, Founder of the Brothers and Patron of Teachers.”

rother Robert J. Wickman, F.S.C., recounted in the Spring 2014 Union that this Mission Statement was composed in the 1994-1995 school year, and it has stood the test of time. In this single sentence, he said, we pinpoint the mission in terms of three actions. Brother Robert wrote, “We say boldly and perhaps, to some, strangely, that loving our students comes first. It establishes the context and the relationship from which every other dimension of our work proceeds. Without priority being given to the love of students, much of the work we do to instruct and guide them would fall short.” Moving on, we quote Brother Robert again:

INSTRUCTED. What about the second action word, “instructed”? Well, it indicates a plan, an organized way to put something before students for their consideration. Our instruction at De La Salle is designed to be rigorous, challenging, and relevant. We spend lots of time and energy developing, coordinating, and delivering a curriculum that broadens our students’ appreciation of the sweep of human affairs over time and place. We boldly say that one’s understanding of the human condition will be flawed and incomplete if one does not take seriously the idea that the God who loves us makes His home with us in the midst of all the ups and downs of life.

The Lasallian call to “remember that we are in the holy presence of God” is not just a spiritual imperative; it is also our gateway to a program of studies that claims that the religious and the human can never be isolated one from the other without compromising both.

The dictionary says that the verb “instruct” has been used in English since the 15th century and in Latin (“instruere”) since old Roman times. Its root meaning has never changed, and it always indicates something additive and positive, a process of building up, fitting out, preparing, and equipping. That is to say, “instruction” means getting the right elements into the right order for the benefit of the person being “instructed.” What are the elements of instruction in a school? In simple terms, they are the right program, the right people, and the right tools.

THE RIGHT PROGRAM. De La Salle offers an academic program that, at a minimum, fulfills the requirements for admission to the University of California. Four years of Religious Studies are also part of every student’s program. This curriculum is designed to provide a thorough education rooted in the traditions of the Catholic faith. It also seeks to meet the individual needs of each student as they prepare for college, career, and life.

“Alignment” and “assessment” are two crucial terms in educational planning: Are our academic offerings aligned with current college expectations and with the skills and knowledge needed in the workplace? Are our assessments of student performance accurate, consistent, and useful to the student in his educational process?

These important disciplines are currently the object of intensive professional study, and De La Salle is consistently examining and improving its practices.

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In coordination with our neighbor, Carondelet High School, many of our upperdivision classes are co-educational, and bring a welcome diversity to the classroom experience of both the boys and the girls. There is a wide variety of elective courses, and opportunities abound for “service-learning,” often with a cross-curricular or interdisciplinary component. There are dozens of clubs and activities, many of them academically oriented, in which students can develop new and useful skills.

Honors and Advanced Placement. There are currently 29 of these accelerated or intensive courses offered, in English, mathematics, music, art, science, social studies, world languages, and computer science. There are Freshman Honors Courses as well, and first-year students can place into honors English, world history, algebra, geometry, or the second level of a language class.

Special Needs. Individualized tutoring by faculty members is regularly available, and a schedule is published on the Academics page of the website. There are academic workshops as well, open to all students; and student-to-student tutoring is also available. The Guidance Services Department works closely with students and faculty to determine how best to meet all varieties of learning needs. A Special Needs Coordinator focuses on study skills and students who may need extra resources. (Read on page 12 about the “Experience Dyslexia” workshop for DLS faculty.) A specialized program for incoming ninth-graders called Spartan Success helps a maximum of thirty students per year in the areas of math, English, and study skills. Students chosen for the Spartan Success Program can benefit from this academic support throughout their four years at De La Salle.

THE RIGHT PEOPLE. Eighty-five dedicated professionals make up the De La Salle faculty and administration. These include four De La Salle Christian Brothers, one serving as Principal and three as faculty members. More than two dozen of the faculty and administration are alumni of this high school, with deep personal knowledge of its values and traditions. The faculty is largely a veteran cohort, with rich experience as teachers, and their longevity is a good indication of their commitment to the work: Thirteen of the faculty have twenty or more years of service here, and 33 of them have worked here between ten and nineteen years.

Three members hold doctoral degrees, and thirty-four have master’s degrees in their related fields of administration, teaching, counseling, or library services.

Several faculty members are currently engaged in master’s programs at leading universities (Notre Dame, the University of San Francisco, and others). This ongoing professional development benefits not only these “lifelong learners” and their students, but also their colleagues. Part of their charge is to share with colleagues the new learning and new tools they are mastering

THE RIGHT TOOLS. The physical tools of education are critically important. In this Digital Age, the right bricks-and-mortar are still indispensable. Students need classrooms and laboratories, studios and theaters, fields and courts, gymnasiums and weight rooms, lockers and lunchrooms, all properly equipped and well maintained. So essential are these facilities that we have undertaken a bold capital campaign as we approach the 50th anniversary of our founding. Our goals include three major building projects that will bring our physical plant up to a level of excellence that will better serve our students now and in the future. You can read more about the 50th Anniversary Campaign for De La Salle in this issue (page 10) and find complete information on the De La Salle website.

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educational benefits. The electronic and cyber-tools that are available are abundant, increasingly powerful, and rapidly evolving. If your vocabulary already includes such things as Moodle, Schoology, EdCanvas, Blendspace, Socrative, and Prezi, if you know what LMS and BYOD mean, if you know that a “flipped classroom” doesn’t refer to the results of an earthquake but to a new approach to class-time and homework, you already appreciate the complexity of this brave new digital world as it impinges on educational theory and practice. You probably even know the shorthand term for this growing array of tools and devices and programs, a short word that sums up a vast universe: Edtech.

The De La Salle approach to edtech is careful, thorough, and incremental. Data-driven decision-making is the key, and the digital age is also the age of data, readily available and easily collectible. Surveys of faculty, students, and parents inform us about needs and expectations. Studies of best practices in other schools enrich our understanding. Key leadership in the edtech area comes from the Vice Principal for Faculty Development, Dr. Elizabeth Berkes, and the Educational Technology Integration Specialist, Social Studies instructor Michael Aquino. Mike Aquino chairs the Educational Technology Development Committee, a cross-departmental group of faculty and staff working to help the school community use technology to advance teaching and learning.

“How do we integrate technology in our classrooms?

The answer lies in the collaborative relationship that is built between teachers and students.”

Recent developments at De La Salle are numerous. A few highlights: • The Google Suite of online tools has been identified as the standard shared platform for DLS faculty and students. • Laptop computers for all faculty were introduced in summer 2014 as the standard tool for teachers, and are being phased in to replace the desktop computers most teachers have used. • The Technology Department has created an online Knowledge Base for faculty that answers specific DLS technical issues and questions. • Professional development days frequently include learning time devoted to edtech matters.

• A half-day Technology Boot Camp for all freshmen is held in August before school opens, to orient them to our edtech tools. • A survey for parents specifically on edtech is planned for October 2014, to gather vital parent input. • A group of teachers is piloting several Learning Management Systems as potential replacements for the current faculty webpages. • Teachers explore, practice, and demonstrate edtech tools in small groups and large faculty meetings.

For an example of the De La Salle approach, we can look at science instructor James Puccetti, a DLS alumnus of 2002. As part of his master’s degree program at USF, he has written an article for teachers entitled “Finding Alternatives & Staying ‘Connected’.” He begins: “Integrating technology into the classroom is a major area of focus, discussion, and experimentation in Catholic schools. The big question facing our schools continues to be this: How can we effectively integrate and manage technology in our classrooms?

The answer, I believe, lies not only in the innovative abilities of the teacher, but more in the collaborative relationship that is built between teachers and students in the classroom.”

Jim continues: “I focused in the past year on developing a classroom routine to integrate technology (iPads, laptops, and desktop computers) in a way that students feel is purposeful, meaningful, and relevant. I was determined to integrate 21st-century skills into my curriculum and to find ways for students to stay ‘connected’ in every sense of that word. This included staying connected with me as their teacher, with their classmates, with the content of the course, with their devices and associated educational resources, and—most importantly—with their Catholic identity. The challenge I faced was finding harmony between these components.”

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The biology unit that Jim chose for his rollout of integrated edtech tools was on the human heart and the circulatory system. For his audience of fellow teachers, he spells out step by step the procedure he followed—how he used the Google Suite and other tools such as EdCanvas, Educreations, DropBox, and Socrative, showing students their power and usefulness. He reports that students took readily to the process and used the tools well, but he cautions: “Please keep in mind that training sessions need to be included for both students and teachers.”

“What helped me the most in finding the most effective technology,” he says, “ was keeping a conversation going with my students about their experience. I gathered data on a quarterly basis regarding the technology being used. This information helped me to gauge its power, or lack thereof, in the classroom… . I also made sure to build in time for them to share ideas and help one another. The key was balancing time between individualized and collaborative learning environments—both of which are essential skills for the 21st-century learner.”

Jim sums it up for his fellow professionals: “I hope this was insightful for those interested in finding new ways to integrate technology into your classrooms…. Providing a

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meaningful learning experience characterized by a commitment to high, positive expectations, deep caring, and attentiveness to the needs, goals, and abilities of all students is central to Catholic education. I am confident that this is achieved through the meaningful integration of technologies into the classroom.

This experience, coupled with my students’ feedback, provided me the insights I needed to feel passionate about finding effective alternatives to traditional teaching methods.”

THE RIGHT RESULTS? In the Digital Age, as in every age, the principle of discerning needs and providing effective instruction for them endures in Lasallian education. The question to be faced: Is our instruction at De La Salle having the right results? Is it, as Brother Robert says it is designed to be, “rigorous, challenging, and relevant”?

In the next few pages you can hear the voices of young alumni and students, and the just-graduated class of 2014 reflecting on the quality of De La Salle’s instruction. These are the voices of thoughtful and diligent young men who are reaping the fruits of a Catholic, Lasallian education in which they are not merely the passively “instructed,” but are engaged in their own education as collaborators and partners.

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Young Alumni in Science: What They Learned at De La Salle

A Foundation for Learning and for Serving JEFF WAGNER, class of 2007

“Enter to learn, leave to serve” is the saying that echoes the core values of our Lasallian tradition.

Having graduated in 2007, I can confirm, however, that learning does not stop the day you receive your diploma. Moving into college, then into a job in a cancer research lab at the University of California, San Francisco, and now into medical school at Oregon Health and Science University, I reflect upon the instruction I received at De La Salle and find myself more and more grateful. Academically I was challenged to build a foundational knowledge in math and science that served as a basis to launch me into rigorous fields of study, such as evolutionary biology and medical science. This occurred while my religion classes were molding qualities of compassion, integrity, and whole-hearted living into my daily life.

Retrospectively, I appreciate that time in my life where I was able to grow both spiritually in my faith and academically

as a scientist. In my opinion, this is unfortunately not commonplace in most high school institutions, as science and spirituality are often seen in a conflicting light. Principles that apply to both faith and science which I was taught at DLS are the willingness to engage, to ask questions (which means admitting you do not know), and to seek the good in others. We rely on each other as human beings to find fulfillment in what we do, and whether it’s a healthcare team taking care of a critically ill patient, a group of medical students conducting a research study on cancer, or a group of volunteers handing out bag lunches for the homeless in our community, we are able to accomplish more when we allow our egocentrism to take a back seat to the larger cause. Such examples correlate exactly with what defines being a Spartan. De La Salle served as the catalyst for the process of discovering who I am as an individual, what my values are, and what role I can play in contributing to the world around me.

I am grateful for the instructors who pushed me to engage that process, and the foundation that has been a key part of my transition into life as an adult.

The De La Salle mission statement is that students should be “loved, instructed, and guided” in a community that follows the traditions of Saint John Baptist de La Salle. His mission, however, was not education for education’s sake. A Lasallian education also gives the student the responsibility to use this learning to serve others. As important as learning the classroom material is, it is equally important that students learn the applications of knowledge.

Through my studies at De La Salle, I both learned the classroom material and was exposed to many of its realworld applications.

My instruction at De La Salle laid the groundwork for my continued education in science. However, it was the hands-on learning that enhanced my science education. One memorable moment was when our biology class had the opportunity to sequence each of our mitochondrial genomes, a small segment of DNA that contains maternal ancestry information. This experiment gave us a very personal way to learn about genetics. Little did I know at the time, however, that I would continue studying genetics throughout my scientific career. Another example is my participation in the Contra Costa County Science and Engineering Fair in sophomore year. I developed and tested bio-fuels from different vegetable oils. My research on this project exposed me to many of the challenges our society faces in ensuring clean,

abundant, and reliable energy sources in the future.

From this strong foundation, I continued working in science. At Cornell, I studied the genetic ancestry of horse breeds. We found that size and ancestry were strongly correlated in horses. In contrast, in many other species (such as dogs or humans), geography is more correlated with ancestry than any specific trait. Our findings suggest that breeding for size in horses may have occurred before the creation of modern horse breeds. As a lifelong equestrian, I was privileged to be able to combine my love of horses with my love of science. I am currently a graduate student in the Department of Genetics at Stanford, where I am studying the genetic basis of cardiovascular diseases and genetic ancestry in human populations.

Looking back, I realize that it was the interactive exercises I participated in at De La Salle that piqued my interest in science.

Through projects such as sequencing our DNA or participating in the science fair, interactive laboratory activities helped to enhance and enrich the material I learned in class. My hope is that the new STREAM Innovation Center will further enhance the opportunities students have to explore and to grow—to learn not just the science, but also how to apply that knowledge to solving the challenges our society faces.

Instruction in Science and Service JULIAN HOMBURGER, class of 2009

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“At De La Salle, I haven’t just learned things.

I’ve learned how to learn.”

The world is thirsting for water to drink. How can its needs be met? Many people, especially in poorer countries and rural areas, have brackish or contaminated water as their only supply. Is there a low-cost, low-energy, efficient way to help them make their water cleaner and safer to drink? Vernon Wetzell of the class of 2015 has an idea.

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is project—“Water Desalinization Using Capacitive Deionization with Graphene Electrodes”—earned some major awards last year, and the California Water Environment Association (CWEA) asked him to give the keynote address at their 2014 Conference. The full paper, co-authored with his research partner, Emily Bettencourt of Northgate High School, is published in the CWEA magazine Wastewater Professional.

Vernon gives thanks for this successful project to many, particularly to Emily (a friend since kindergarten) and her father, Brent Bettencourt, whom he calls his mentor. He also credits De La Salle High School, where is now in his fourth year. “I’m so glad I came here. What’s good here is that you learn how to learn. It starts right off in freshman year, that you learn how to learn. You are taught that learning is a process and a set of skills. You don’t just get facts thrown at you. You have to show that you can grasp them and apply them, really use the material. Myself, I am a slow reader. I have to read things slowly and carefully to get them. It takes time and persistence, and I’m supported in that. It’s the best education I have ever experienced.”

Vernon’s De La Salle experience has been made possible by the Bishop John S. Cummins Scholarship Program. “I can’t say enough about the Bishop Cummins Program,” his

mother, Tammy Smith, declares. “It has been invaluable. As I single mother, it’s so good to know that Greg MacArthur [the Program Director] is there to keep the boys on task—so I don’t need to be the constant nag! We double-team the kids: I provide what can be provided at home, but that attention to the school tasks is such a help to parents. And it has been great for Vernon. I remember at the end of his freshman year, school had been out for a couple of weeks, and Vernon said to me, ‘Mom—I can’t wait for school to start again.’

Coming to De La Salle was “a long shot” for him, says Vernon. None of his eighth-grade classmates at Foothill Middle School were applying to DLS, but Vernon is a member of the Ygnacio Wood Swim Club, and he says, “I had several coaches who went to DLS, current students or alumni, and they all loved it. I got a good impression of the school from them.” And he takes full advantage of all that DLS offers. Among his many activities, he plays alto sax in the bands and swims the 100 freestyle for the Spartans swim team. His professional goal and probable college focus will be in astrophysics. “I’ve always been fascinated by it.”

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village, or even a single household. It would involve lower youth award for a water-related science project. “The prize,” costs than other methods, and could run on solar energy or says The Water Environment Federation, “taps into the other sustainable sources. The technology could have unlimited potential of today's high school students as they industrial applications as well, cleansing wastewater of toxic seek to address current and future water challenges.” minerals and allowing the extracted minerals to be captured.

“There is only so much fresh water available, and it is The California Water Environment Association, 9,200 precious,” says Vernon. “When you say ‘desalinization’ members strong, had a theme for its conference this year: people think of ocean water. But ocean water is about 35,000 “Training Plus Innovation Equals Excellence.” The parts per million of sodium, very salty and hard to desalinate.

Conference materials ask the attendees: “What are the traits Our method is designed for brackish water, maybe one-tenth of today’s innovative professionals? How do they think and to one-fifth of that concentration.” Their concept involves behave? Why don’t they let improving the current practice of deionizing water ”Mom,” said Vernon at the end of freshman traditional rules and the status with carbon electrodes by year, “I can’t wait for school to start again.” quo stand in the way of their vision? What questions do they using electrodes of graphene, constantly use to benchmark their thinking? What are the a form of pure carbon in a very thin sheet, one atom thick. skills needed for innovative thinking and behaviors?”

Graphene was first produced in 2004 (its inventors were It’s no wonder that the CWEA published the students’ given the Nobel Prize in 2010). Light, strong, conductive, and fascinating paper for its members and asked Emily offering a large surface area, this material, as Vernon and Bettencourt and Vernon Wetzell to be its keynote speakers.

Emily have written, “introduced a whole new front in These students model today the behavior that will be crucial capacitive deionization adsorption possibilities.” for scientific and technological innovators tomorrow.

Vernon and Emily envision this advanced technology as the basis of an apparatus built on a scale to serve a small

Vernon Wetzell and his partner in water research, Emily Bettencourt of Northgate High School.

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Today’s students can be tomorrow’s scientists, technicians, engineers, mathematicians, artists, and innovators.

Question: How do we help them get from here to there?

In March 2014, at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, more than 130 industry partners took part in the annual Intel-Affiliated Contra Costa County Science and Engineering Fair (CCCSEF) and evaluated more than 260 student science and engineering projects. The sophomore Honors Biology class taught by Viki Acquistapace brought their projects, as they do each year, and took away some major awards. Here is a partial list of honors taken by these members of the De La Salle Class of 2016: CCCSEF First Place Awards: In BIOLOGY, Bijan Samimi ; Charles Brody and Devin Buchanan; Daniel Hinckley. In ENGINEERING, Robin Joseph; Anthony Valentine; Ryan Wong, Donovan Blair, and Matt Koelzer.

In ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Aaron Capinpin. CCCSEF Third Place Awards: In BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, Victor Salas; James Simonelli, Jonathan Sullivan, and Alexander Raines. In BIOLOGY, Quinten Adabie, Liam Spangenberg, and Kevin Bentley. In ENGINEERING, Jarryd Tanedo. CCCSEF Fourth Place Awards: In BIOLOGY, Joseph Kratz, Dylan Nye, and Daniel Hassett; Adam Mercer and Julian Bell. In ENGINEERING, Matthew Conway and Nick Mercier; Nicholas Marshall.

A California State Science Fair Finalist in BIOLOGY: Bijan Samimi.

Answer: Turn the page to see the STREAM Innovation Center, and learn what you can do to help our students reach their full potential.

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Building Tomorrow’s Education Today: The STREAM Innovation Center

hen De La Salle High School science instructor Viki Acquistapace received an award from the Contra Costa Commission for Women in 2012 as “A Woman Innovating in Science or Technology,” she shared with the audience an e-mail from the father of a student. He had written: “Mrs. A: Tonight I was working late on the computer and I could hear my son talking in his sleep. He was saying, ‘I love biology. I love biology.’ And then, back to sleep he went.”

The audience laughed, along with the veteran teacher, who says, “I want students to crave science.” And crave it they do.

You’ve read here (pages 7-9) about students from the classes of 2016 and 2015 and their love of science. But our students crave, and explore, and investigate, and try, and master so much more.

If we had more pages, we could display the Winton Arts Festival’s beauty and the Robotics Club’s inventiveness; the theatre program’s performances and the music program’s offerings.

In each issue of the Union, we can give you only a hint of the rich and varied life of this school, and of the many modes in which our commitment to “Love, Instruct, and Guide” our students is carried out.

As educators, we recognize the challenge we face in serving our students well. Across all the disciplines, we must provide the facilities and tools that are commensurate with the abilities of our teachers and the potential of our students. One answer to that challenge is now rising on campus: The STREAM Innovation Center. STREAM stands for Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. In this multi-disciplinary facility students will pursue the arts and sciences in newly integrated ways. They will prepare for rigorous college work and a competitive job market. They will be given the tools to find their

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creativity and follow their dreams. They will learn to live lives of disciplined wonder and satisfying productivity.

The STREAM Innovation Center is part of De La Salle’s 50th Anniversary Campaign, which is now starting its public phase. The funds raised in the Campaign will be used in four crucial areas of school life: Academics, Access, Arts, and Athletics. OurAcademics, Arts, and Athletics programs need new and improved facilities to meet the needs of our students and families. Access means having a robust endowment to generate financial aid so that all families have access to this education for their sons, whatever their income level may be. Already, in the private phase of the campaign, the goal in the area of Access has been met, with a $15 million increase in the endowment for financial aid. In the other areas, the capital projects planned are the STREAM Innovation Center ($20.5 million); a new Performing Arts Center ($7 million), and a new Athletic Performance Center ($7.5 million).

Fundraising efforts for the STREAM Innovation Center and the 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign are underway and the school seeks to work with interested investors to help us achieve our financial goals. Gifts at all levels are valued as we look to keep our momentum going throughout 2015. There is even the opportunity for donors to consider a gift made over time, as we are accepting pledges over a period of three to five years. For more information about how you and your family can be a part of this campaign and its legacy for generations of Spartans to come, please contact Chief Advancement Officer Heather Pastorini at pastorinih@dlshs.org or 925-288-8106. You can also watch the future of education take shape at De La Salle High School, by visiting www.dlshs.org and clicking on the 50th Anniversary Campaign button.

The individuals listed below have honored us with their early investments in the 50th Anniversary Campaign for De La Salle. We would love to have you join in this effort. To learn more about how you can help and be listed with the individuals below in future publications, please visit the website at www.dlshs.org and click on the 50th Anniversary Campaign button or contact Heather Pastorini at (925) 288-8106 or pastorinih@dlshs.org.

Anonymous (5) Steve '83 and Kellie Abreu Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Acquistapace Mr. and Mrs. Joe Aliotti Mr. and Mrs. Brett J. Anderson '97 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Appel Mr. and Mrs. Felix Armenta Ms. Elizabeth Baker Mr. Matthew P. Baldacci '13 Mr. Michael J. Baldacci '08 Mr. Thomas M. Baldacci '10 Mr. Kevin T. Baldacci '07 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baldacci '83 Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Baldacci '82 Thomas '77 and Brenda Baldacci Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Barry Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Bedford Mr. David E. Behring Mrs. Lisa A. Behring Mrs. Victor Belfiore, Jr. Mr. Andrew Berkes and Dr. Elizabeth Berkes Mr. and Mrs. David M. Birka-White Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bloch The Brothers' Community at De La Salle Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Bradford Mr. Greg G. Brown-Davis '97 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Bruni '76 Mike and Caroline Buckley Christopher and Georgia Burns Mr. and Mrs. Francis Byrne Brother Stanislaus Campbell, FSC David and Andrea Campos Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Cannon David and Nairy Colello and Family Mr. Larry Colon The Conco Companies Mrs. Patricia A. Crane Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Crespi '81 Robert '93 and Kasey Curran De La Salle High School Mr. and Mrs. Peter Deitchman Mark '78 and Lori DeMarco Mrs. Rebecca DeWeese Ms. Lillian A. Dickson Scott '94 and Sarah Drain Mr. Mark Dymond Mr. and Mrs. Mark G. Edwards Mr. Don Eidson Terry and Aggie Eidson Rob '83 and Michelle Engelhart and Family Engelhart Gourmet Foods Mr. and Mrs. Steve Fagalde David and Monica Fryman Mrs. Vanessa R. Gai Silvio & Mary Garaventa Family Foundation Marilyn and Paul Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gilbert

Mr. Keith H. Gillette Peter and Katherine Glaessner Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Grantham Guelld Family Mr. and Mrs. Blas Guerrero, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Steven Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Haener Mr. and Mrs. Gus Halas Matthew and Kathleen Haley Brother Lawrence P. Haley, FSC '72 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Harbison Roger and Mary Hassett Ms. Wanda Hedden Cathy and Kenneth Higaki Mr. Allan Hightman Scott '82 and Luann Hirsch Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Hofmann Mr. Christopher A. Hood-Rosales '76 Mr. and Mrs. Lon Huffman Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hulburd Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Hurlbut Ireland Family and Gunnar Rask Cathy and Jon Jacques Paul and Deborah Jansen David and Marlein Jeans Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Johnson '76 Lynne and Dan Jones Mr. Maurice C. Jones-Drew ’03 Juarez Family Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Keane Mr. and Mrs. William Kennerley Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Kincaid Mr. Rick E. Koch '73 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kozel Mr. Abel Lapid Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Larkin, Jr. Tom and Marilyn Leahy Ms. Esther Lopez Mr. Jose Lozano Mr. Gregory Lyon and Ms. Elizabeth Baker Mr. Gregory D. MacArthur '03 Gordon and Joan MacDonald Meg and Tom Maloney Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mattos Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. McAdoo and Family Mrs. Marilyn McClaskey Mr. and Mrs. David T. McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Meadows '97 The Mechelke Family Mrs. Lindsay Melaas Mrs. Linda A. Mercer Michael Monaldo and Valerie Nagel Mr. Robert J. Montgomery '70 Mr. and Mrs. David W. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Morgan Mr. Frank Murray Michael and Patricia Niedermeyer Mr. Zosimo Odal

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Holly and Pat O'Dea Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Olinger Mrs. Margaret M. Pallack Heather and Todd Pastorini and Family Mr. and Mrs. Nick V. Pelosi '91 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pelster '87 Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Peters '83 Roger and Cathy Peters Mr. and Mrs. Ioan Petrut Mr. and Mrs. Michael J.Pickett The Pittore Family Mrs. May M. Plata Mr. Tyrone M. Plata '09 Mr. Jose Portillo Mr. and Mrs. Russell Probst Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Proulx Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Rassier '00 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rassier, Jr. ’98 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rassier Ratcliff Ms. Kathy Resch RJJ Medical Incorporation Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Roberts '88 Frank and Carol Rockwell Brother Michael Saggau, FSC Mr. Enrique Salem Mr. Jose Sanchez and Mrs. Anna Melero Penny and Edward Sanders Ms. Linda Sarver Mr. and Mrs. Octavio Sarmiento Sandra L. Scherer Mr. Lloyd V. Schine III '94 and Mrs. Cri Schine Scott's Seafood Restaurant Ms. Elaine Seed Ms. Lauren J. Seeno Kevin '91 and Emily Selby Spencer and Colleen Shively Mr. and Mrs. Robert Silva Silvio and Mary Garaventa Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Sitzmann Mrs. Pat Stull Ms. Ida Tolentino Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Trinidad Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Y. True Mr. and Mrs. Art Turrin Brother George Van Grieken, FSC Doug and Hildy Van Wyck Mr. and Mrs. Mark Vierengel Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Villafania Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Vranesh '85 Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Vrionis Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wallunas Karla, David, and Tyler Wiese Dr. and Mrs. John K. Wilhelmy Ronald and Mary Yonekawa Mr. Michael R. Zumbo and Ms. Bonnie K. Toland-Zumbo

The above listing recognizes gifts and pledges made to The 50th Anniversary Campaign for De La Salle received as of September 18, 2014. We have made every effort to provide a complete and accurate listing. However, errors may occur, and we hope you will accept our sincere apologies. Please contact Director of Development Karla Wiese, in the Advancement Office at (925) 288-8195 or wiesek@dlshs.org, and we will correct our records for future recognition and publications.

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Have You Walked a Mile in My Shoes?

Have You Spent a School Day in My Seat?

Join our teachers as they experience instruction from the students’ side—and see what it is like to go through a day with a learning disability.

ow do we make our instruction maximally effective? Part of the answer is: We must discern accurately our students’ gifts and challenges.

Professional educators are increasingly aware that a variety of learning disabilities can impede students’ progress.

Among these is dyslexia, and experts estimate that one teenager in ten suffers from it.

Sean Bristol ’97 is the school’s Special Needs Coordinator. He says, “In the average school population, you can expect about 12 to 15 percent of students to have some kind of learning disability. Dyslexia is the most common one. At De La Salle we encourage parents to share with us any special needs their sons may have, so that we can address them. People are still surprised at this sometimes.

‘Aren’t you a private school?’ they say. ‘I didn’t know you did that.’ We do, and parents are increasingly getting the message. Currently, we have more than 80 students with a diagnosed learning disability, and there may be about forty more who have not been diagnosed, so I would estimate our percentage to be about the average. That tells me that we are getting a more realistic picture of who our students are.”

Last September Sean and the Guidance Services office worked with Dr. Elizabeth Berkes to organize a Professional Development Day that included “Experience Dyslexia,” a course created by the International Dyslexia Association. This “simulation” has been developed for teachers and teachers-intraining, and studies have established that it is highly effective in making instructors aware of dyslexia and its various manifestations in student behavior.

The simulation is a compressed school-day, with six different classes. Ours took place on the De La Salle campus, in our familiar classrooms. The teachers were simply asked to act for the day as if they were students—to go, as a group, from classroom to classroom, from subject to subject, and in each setting to do some standard academic tasks: discuss a short story; take turns reading aloud, listen to a

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recording and take notes; do some legible writing. In each classroom there was The Teacher (one of our guidance counselors, playing a scripted role) who facilitated the class and directed the tasks.

The materials blandly state that “participants rotate among six learning stations that simulate language-related tasks.” That sounds simple: to “rotate among six learning stations” might be interesting, even fun.

But what actually happens, as most of the participants later testified, can be distinctly unfun. When you have labored in Classroom 1 to interpret a slightly different alphabet; and when you have struggled in Classroom 2 to grasp the audio information coming into your headphones; and when you have failed in Classroom 3 to copy correctly (with your off hand) some simple figures—and when all this failure has occurred, embarrassingly, in front of your peers—the result is that you and your peers begin to slog reluctantly from room to room, approaching Classrooms 4, 5, and 6 with a feeling best described as dread.

“It was disturbing.” “After failing a few times, I felt myself starting to withdraw, I just didn’t want to be exposed again.” “I was a frightened freshman again, struggling to keep up.” “I never realized that dyslexic kids can struggle in all these ways.”

campus news “What’s it like, reading and writing with dyslexia?

It’s like running a 400-meter race in flip-flops.”

Weston Borosky graduated from De La Salle High School in 2014 with High Honors. In his four years at DLS he earned academic honors every semester. He achieved Eagle Scout rank in the Boy Scouts of America, and received a Creative Achievement Award from California College of the Arts. He is now pursuing his education at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and hopes to work professionally in industrial design. Early in his senior year of high school, on the professional-development day when teachers assembled to begin the Dyslexia Simulation Workshop, Weston spoke to the assembled faculty.

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It's rare, but it does happen. Sometimes close friends ask me, ‘What is it like, this whole dyslexia thing? Are the letters, like, backward? Does it look like they are written in Chinese…?’

“It’s difficult to explain exactly, but this is the best response that I can make: I want you to imagine that learning, and reading, and writing, and school work generally, is a 400-meter race. Now imagine it's the first day of school and everyone has showed up and is ready to start the year strong, ready to start the race. Most everyone is suited up in Nike's latest model of running shoe.

However, there is one kid who shows up to the race wearing flip-flops.

“That kid is me.

“Flip-flops are not necessarily bad shoes—but they are definitely not suitable for a 400-meter dash. And when that race begins, the people around me seem to stride effortlessly to the front while I start falling behind.

As hard as I try, I simply can’t keep up. No matter the time or effort I put in, the flip-flops are not running shoes. It's the end of the season and the coach is lookThese are typical comments that Sean Bristol hears from participants. Says Sean, “Eye-opening, is what most teachers call it. Just as somebody may know how to swim or bike, and that learned behavior seems natural, we are teachers, and we know how to read and write and discuss—but on this day, things we have done for years are new and difficult. It’s uncomfortable, and really helps us see what our students are going through.” Sean reports that participants have even been brought to tears. “Some of us never had this experience as students, but for people who did it can be very moving.

ing at the numbers. He sees that I have been much slower all year and simply expects that I am lazy and tired, just like most teens these days.

“This is a real struggle that I and many others face every day. This is our reality. We cannot simply change shoes and keep up with everyone else. Even the smallest things seem difficult to me. For example, in English class, when we read aloud, I fear that I will be picked to read and won't be able to do it with the finesse and clarity that others do. While most students don't even think twice about simple activities like this, it is what I dread every day in school; as do many other students like me.

“So my message to you is this: To look deeper into your students. They are all running your race, and while some run faster than others, it doesn't mean those in the rear aren't trying. And hey, you never know—that kid with the flip-flops may actually be the best runner. So do your students a favor, and get them out of those flipflops so they can finish the race with everyone else.

“Thank you.”

- Weston Borosky ’14 Teachers have told me: ‘This is just what I had to struggle through when I was in school, and I wasn’t sure that anybody understood.’”

De La Salle High School understands.

For information, contact Sean Bristol at 925-288-8104 or by e-mail at bristols@dlshs.org. For resources on dyslexia, including the simulation “Experience Dyslexia,” visit the Northern California Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (NCBIDA) online.

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FROM THE BROTHERHOOD OF STUDENTS

TO THE BROTHERHOOD OF ALUMNI

On May 18, 2014, our time for instructing the members of the class of 2014 drew to a close.

he Class of 2014 numbered 241 graduates, with a remarkable record of academic accomplishment. The class includes 27 members of the National Honor Society, and 23 seal-bearers of the California Scholarship Federation. Eighty-six members of the class achieved High Honors (a grade point average of 3.5 or above), and 62 members of the class achieved Honors (a grade point average 3.0 to 3.49). Ninety percent of the graduates have gone on to four-year colleges and universities, while nine percent are attending two-year schools.

All nine campuses of the University of California have welcomed De La Salle graduates this year (11 percent of the class).

Excellent private colleges in California—schools such as Chapman, Loyola Marymount, Santa Clara, Stanford, and USC— have welcomed another 11 percent of the class.

Nearly half of the graduates (109 students) have spread their wings and flown beyond California to continue their education, in 24 other states and Washington DC. They are attending schools such as Amherst, Berklee College of Music, Colorado, Columbia, Dartmouth, George Mason, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oberlin, Portland, Purdue, Seattle, Southern Methodist, Texas, Villanova, and Washington.

“We set out now to continue writing the book that is our lives.”

With the closing of one chapter comes the opening of another. Just as we learned when we entered high school, the transition into a new chapter is not always easy. Yes, it comes with uncertainty. Yes, it comes with new challenges. The sentences may be longer and the words may be more complex. But the beauty of life is that the story nevertheless continues, and that there will always be the comforting reassurance of being able to start a fresh page.

Consider this quote from Robert Frost: "I have never started a poem whose end I knew.

Writing a poem is discovering." With this same mindset, we set out now to continue writing the book that is our lives. And when the writing becomes difficult, even seemingly impossible, we will always be able to flip back a few pages to draw strength and wisdom from what we have written these past four years at De La Salle. The lessons we have learned here are our foundation to continue a story that is unique, admirable, and inspiring. And it is with this story that we hope to spark a positive change in the world around us. But for now, in this moment, during a brief pause between chapters, we will take pride in what we have accomplished. We will recall the boy who first entered this school and compare him to the man who today parts with it. We will thank our parents, teachers, and all those who have supported us through this journey. We will cherish the bonds that have been created with our fellow brothers, bonds that will endure even as the unpredictable journey known as life inevitably draws us apart. And when we are finished, we will bravely turn the page and continue writing once again.

- Salutatorian Grant Butler ’14 is attending the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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“Your teachers have loved, instructed, and guided you well.”

Here is my alert message for today, my Spartan Brothers. For sure, you will have cause and opportunity to celebrate who you have become as the years go on. But, you should also have the full expectation that that there will be some suffering along the way. Such are the lives of those who live well their commitments. Gentlemen, your teachers have loved, instructed, and guided you well. Your parents have showered you with the great gift of a Catholic, Lasallian education and given both challenge and support in asking you to stick to what you began when you were just boys. I thank them today for providing such a gift and for trusting our school community to help raise you.

- Brother Robert J. Wickman, F.S.C., is De La Salle’s Principal.

This is an excerpt from his Commencement remarks.

“We have been guided by teachers who knew how to challenge and encourage us.”

At the beginning of our time together, way back at freshman orientation, I remember hearing this poem by William Blake: “I sought my soul / But my soul I could not see. / I sought my God, / But my God eluded me. / I sought my brother, / And I found all three.” We are distinctive not because of our athletic or academic or extracurricular accomplishments, though they are varied, but because we have come to the point of recognizing each other as brothers, and in doing so, we are reminded of the presence of God. For me there was never any question if I would attend De La Salle High School. As the youngest of six kids who have come through Winton Drive, I would undoubtedly follow my older brothers to become a Spartan. I stand here today as the fifth Taylor son to graduate from De La Salle: a legacy of constant presence at this school during the past eighteen years. I have been a part of the Brotherhood my entire life. However, like most of us, four years ago I would not have been able to articulate what the vision here is. But together we have developed an understanding and a culture that revolves around the school’s foundational values of faith, integrity, and scholarship. In this development, we have been guided by teachers who knew which ways to challenge and encourage us, whether it was in language or mathematics, or in a religion course reinforcing the principles of faith, or in the notoriously sleep-depriving Honors Biology class. In sports, we labored together, from warm-ups to workouts to final sprints. In our Christian faith, we learned to boldly face tribulations in the knowledge that these trials build a closer relationship with God as He helps us to persevere and as we rely on His strength, not our own. Through our initial struggles in classrooms and on fields, and then developing into our work as a community of brothers in service to others, we grew together, closer, stronger, and more reliant on one another.

- Valedictorian Jarrett Taylor ’14 is attending Dartmouth College.

This is an excerpt from his Valedictory address.

“You must know that our love for you does not end today.”

During the Spring Concert this year, our student-musicians performed the song Seasons of Love. The lyrics say, “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes – the minutes in a year. And how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? Measure in love.” The song suggests that you measure a year in love. I hope that you have felt loved while you have been here. If not, we have failed as a school. In case any of you are wondering, I figured out that over your four years here we had two million one hundred two thousand four hundred minutes in which to love you, and to get it right. But you must know that our love for you does not end today. You will always be loved by us, always welcomed at your second home here. Come back to visit while you are in college—and I welcome you now to the Alumni Brotherhood!

- Mark DeMarco ’78 is De La Salle’s President.

This excerpt is from his remarks at the Commencement.

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“Learning is a continuous journey on which you seek challenges, take risks, find new interests, and develop real passions.”

Back in the middle of April, one Monday morning I really struggled to get up for school. When my peaceful sleep was interrupted by an alarm clock at six in the morning, I thought, “Do my grades even matter anymore? Do I really want to go to school? Why should I get up today?” And that last question really hit me. I had fallen into the trap of thinking that high school is merely a means to an end. But it’s more than that. The GPA and the classes matter—but they are not all that matter. We experience true learning in more than just the academic sense. High school is like any other college or grad school or trade school or job that you might find yourself in, in the sense that the learning never stops. Learning is a continuous journey in which you constantly seek challenges, take risks, find new interests, and develop a real passion for something.

“Why should I get up today?” Because there is always something new to learn, to experience, and to cherish each and every day. In a way, my senioritis was a tremendous advantage because it allowed me to really evaluate the things that matter most. Even if you’re not sure what those are today, keep looking, because you will find it. For “Men of Scholarship,” the pursuit of learning never stops.

- Harrison Lam ’14 is attending the University of California at Los Angeles.

This excerpt is from his talk at the Baccalaureate Mass on May 16, 2014.

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“The greatest profession there is – teaching.”

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Cheryl Delahoussaye, MFCC, has been at De La Salle High School since 1984, as faculty member and Guidance Department counselor. She retired after the 2013-14 school year

s I complete my last tasks here at De La Salle, there are some key words that come to mind: pray, play, teach, and counsel. Those words embody what my life was dedicated to for thirty years.

Pray. To pray was a constant for me, but I really liked the Lasallian way of opening a prayer. Then the whole day was my prayer to God, asking for His help in everything I did and for everyone I met during each day.

Play. I always tried to balance work with play. It seemed to make the work a little easier and I always looked forward to my reward of play. But here at De La Salle I couldn’t wait to play volleyball on the Faculty team. We were awesome! From there I became the first woman coach here at De La Salle, coaching men’s JV Volleyball in the early 1990s. We had a lot of fun learning the game. During my years here, I became a fan of De La Salle sports, supporting our students’ play. Play includes more than athletics: as Chess Club Moderator, I was fortunate to play a game or two with the Chess Club members.

Teach. Teaching is the greatest profession there is, and as a teacher, I experienced challenges, adventures, and amazing students in English, U.S. History, AP U.S. History, and Honors World History classes. My freshmen had a thrilling experience connecting with students from Cambodia on the computer for an entire year, sharing family styles, school experiences, and history and cultural notes that described and defined them. Together my students and I engaged history in different forms: building a trebuchet, analyzing cartoons, learning to become strategists by playing the game of chess. We learned about some of the problems of the world and how we still are trying to solve them: for instance, the “global warming” issue as we watched a documentary on the Maldives Islands and their struggle to exist and not disappear due to rising waters.

Counsel. This is where my prayer was most urgent: “Lord, let me listen well and welcome my students. Let them trust that I will help them as best I can.”

I am grateful to the students that I have worked with these thirty years. These young people have made me believe that we can re-create God’s world each day in amazing ways. And I am grateful to my colleagues. They truly made me see that, as the prayer goes, “we are in the Holy Presence of God.” They are amazing men and women, who are dedicated to sharing their gifts and who believe in

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their students. And I thank God every day for the counseling staff in our Guidance Services Department. They have taught me how to be a better counselor and a better person.

I will miss you all, but it is time to go and I await my next challenge and adventure. So . . . Saint John Baptist de La Salle, pray for us. Live Jesus in our hearts, forever.

Cheryl Delahoussaye grew up in Oakland, where she still lives, and was inspired to become a teacher herself by her junior English teacher, who handed Cheryl back one of her assigned essays with this note: “I never thought of it this way before! Good job.” It was for her a great model of what a teacher can do for a student. Cheryl’s first love is art (both paint and clay). Playing the piano is also a skill she acquired early, and music was her original major in college before she switched to history. She earned her Marriage Family and Child Counseling degree at USF, and as a certified counselor her continuing education has focused on students with learning needs.

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“A teacher gets the great gift of lasting relationships.”

Charlie Noland joined the De La Salle Religious Studies Department in 1985 and has served as teacher, coach, and alumni relations director. Charlie retired after the 2013-14 school year. hat is the main thing I have learned in so many years of teaching? I’ve learned to appreciate different personalities. If you are a teacher, you learn that you have to be thoroughly tolerant. The students who come into your classroom are so young, and they are growing. You have to appreciate the struggles they are going through as adolescents. I think that if you can’t do that, you can’t succeed. You have to adapt to different kinds of people, and you have to understand them—and not judge harshly. Young people today are bombarded with expectations from everybody, and a lot of that is internalized and becomes selfimposed, which puts them under great stress. As a teacher, I have to recognize that. But they do grow up, and a teacher gets the great gift of lasting relationships with fine men. I stay in contact with hundreds of former students—alumni who have become friends, some of whom now have sons in the school. When I was Alumni Relations Director from 2003 to 2008, I loved that work. Our

alumni are a terrific group, some wonderful people. So – thank you, De La Salle, for everything. I will always be grateful for the way the school responded when I had major medical problems, one in 1997 and another six years later.

Both problems put me out of commission for a time, but thanks to the generosity of the Christian Brothers I was able to return to my job and to this great work.

Charlie Noland, a native of Honolulu, first got acquainted with the De La Salle Christian Brothers while studying at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley in 1979, and he has been engaged in the Christian Brothers’ educational ministry in California in various capacities ever since, the past three decades as a faculty member at De La Salle High School. With a wife, a daughter in college, a son in elementary school, and interests in volunteer work both with medical patients and with high school students (and a bit of golf when possible), Charlie looks forward to a very busy retirement.

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Marilyn Gardner, De La Salle’s Chief Financial Officer since 2000, has stepped down as CFO effective July 1, 2014.

Said President Mark DeMarco, “Marilyn has done a remarkable job for the past 14 years and has been key in the financial and business success of the school today. Words don't really express all she has done day in and day out. I work closely with her and she is one of the most competent CFO's I have ever known. Beginning July 1, Marilyn takes on a new role as the part-time Project Manager for the construction of our major building projects over the next three years. This will allow her a reduced schedule and more time

to spend with her husband, Paul, who is retiring this year.”

Taking over the position of CFO at July 1 is Lynne Jones.

Lynne has been at De La Salle since March 2014, working as Controller. She came to De La Salle from a job as Controller at The College Preparatory School in Oakland.

DeMarco said, “I am happy to announce that Lynne Jones is assuming the role of CFO. I have the utmost confidence that Lynne will carry on the many fine things that Marilyn has done. Lynne worked with me at the Department of Catholic Schools in the Oakland Diocese, and was a great asset.”

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When the Game and the Mission Both Stand Tall

The feature film When the Game Stands Tall played in thousands of theaters in August and September, and De La Salle’s educational mission captured the attention of a large new public.

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To have a great story from De La Salle High School brought to the screen by such a talented group of people has been an honor,” said school president Mark DeMarco ’78 in a news release before the August 22 opening. “They have turned the fine book by Neil Hayes into an equally fine film. And what thrills us most is that so many people who didn’t know us before have grasped what this school is all about. People like producer David Zelon and star Jim Caviezel can speak to our mission with insight and passion. They understand that what our teachers and staff and coaches teach and model is responsibility, accountability, and commitment.

Whether the students are in the classroom, in clubs and activities, doing service in the community, or playing sports – and whether a team wins or loses -- those are the values by which this community tries to live.”

Jim Caviezel was asked in many interviews why he took on the role of a high school religion teacher and football coach named Bob Ladouceur. He told Tony Rossi of the Patheos weblog, “What Ladouceur teaches is real love, real responsibility. He says to his team, ‘We’re not asking you to play a perfect game. That’s impossible. What we’re asking of you – and what you should be asking of yourself – is that you give a perfect effort on every play, that you can be depended upon. Love means that you can depend on me.’

Those boys look him in the eye and they know he loves them. That is true authenticity.” The actor paid the school the ultimate compliment when talking to Peter Crooks of Diablo magazine: “I would love for my own son to go to De La Salle.”

The actor said to Rossi, “When I had the opportunity to play Bob Ladouceur, I prayed, ‘Lord, I want people to see this film. I want them to be moved. And I want those out there who think that they have no hope and no chance to know they are loved, to know they can feel Your love.’ This is not just a football movie. It’s about life. The value of this film is role models, and the focus is love.”

The Catholic Voice newspaper in Oakland wrote a front-page story, and reporter Michele Jurich asked Bob Ladouceur, “What’s the message you hope people walk out of theater with?” Ladouceur replied, “I’d like them to see football and sporting participation in a different light. It’s not just about performance or winning. It’s about development of a community, of coming together, which is what we call a team, and all the dynamics that come into play in making a team to be proud of. It takes a lot of discipline, sacrifice and work, respect and courtesy, all those things, for a team to thrive. That’s what we work for.”

“Courtesy is not a word you often hear in football,” the reporter pointed out to the coach. “Yeah,” said Lad, “but it’s in keeping with the philosophy of the school. We operate from the school mission statement. It’s a great blueprint to work from.”

A special pre-release premiere at Blackhawk Plaza Theatres in Danville on August 17 drew hundreds of supporters and raised more than $43,000 for the Terrance Kelly ’04 Endowed Memorial Fund for Financial Aid at De La Salle High School. The photos here are from that event.

”I would love for my own son to go to De La Salle,” said the star.

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Fans gather at Blackhawk Plaza.

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Mary and Landrin Kelly.

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Principal Brother Robert Wickman, FSC; producer David Zelon; President Mark DeMarco ’78.

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De La Salle Academy:

The Youngest Brothers in the Spartan Brotherhood.

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The new middle school is open, and a great educational adventure has begun.

e La Salle Academy in Concord officially opened its doors on August 8, 2014, to 18 fifth-graders and 16 sixth-graders. The plan is to add one class per year, until the school has its full complement of four classes (fifth grade through eighth) and a student body of up to 80 boys. The school will prepare its students to do collegepreparatory work, so that they can succeed in high school, matriculate to college, and find success beyond.

De La Salle Academy uses a proven model of middle school education called “the Miguel Model,” which helps students to remedy educational deficits and to learn the skills and habits needed for academic success. Applications are accepted only from families living at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level. Corporately, De La Salle Academy is a division of De La Salle High School, and it is an example of the high school’s commitment, as a Lasallian institution, to keeping education accessible to low-income families. The Academy has only been made possible by the generous initiative of Kenneth H. Hofmann and The Hofmann Family Foundation, who have fully funded the school’s founding and operation.

Academy Principal Marilyn Paquette says, “The De La Salle Academy experience can be transformative for these young men and their families. We consider that we have entered into an eleven- or twelve-year partnership with each boy admitted this year, and with their families. And each partnership is the start of something with enormous potential.”

Mark DeMarco, president of De La Salle High School, said, “What a wonderful opening day we had, and what a joy to see these young men and families. They will receive an education that will break the cycle of poverty for them. A

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special thank-you to Mr. Ken Hofmann and his family for making this school a reality.”

On August 27, 2014, our middle school brothers joined us at the high school’s school-year-opening liturgy, the Mass of the Holy Spirit. Michael C. Barber, SJ, the bishop of Oakland, celebrated the Mass, concelebrating with our school chaplain, Father LaSalle Hallissey, OP, an “original Spartan” from the class of 1969. The young men of the Academy were welcomed by the young men of the high school, each receiving a special gift of a De La Salle Spartan necktie. The mascot and nickname of the middle school boys? Yes, they, too, are the Spartans—the youngest Spartans of all.

For information on De La Salle Academy, visit www.dlshs.org and click the De La Salle Academy button.

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De La Salle 2013 - 2014 Fiscal Year

Annual Financial Report

As we wrap up the 2013-2014 fiscal year audit, we thank our former Chief Financial Officer, Marilyn Gardner, and the Finance Committee, for all their assistance in guiding and stewarding the financial resources of De La Salle High School. Thanks to their efforts, we close the year in a better financial position than ever, with growing operating reserves and endowment. Favorable market conditions and generous donors helped to grow our invested endowments by 20 percent, from $6.7 million to $8.1 million, year over year. We continue to strive for low tuition increases, continuing the trend of 3 percent annual increases over the past several years, while increasing funding for financial aid to $2.4 million.

Looking ahead to the 2014-2015 fiscal year, and to the fiftieth anniversary of our founding in 1965, we are underway with the construction of the new STREAM Innovation

Center (Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) and are seeking to fund the project through an ambitious 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign.

Simultaneously, we continue to examine our operating expenses to ensure that our stewardship of resources is as fiscally responsible as it can be. De La Salle High School is blessed with a dedicated faculty and committed staff, and administrators who are innovative and adaptive to changing realities. Their efforts insure a quality Catholic Lasallian education for our students.

We are grateful to you, our parents, alumni, benefactors, donors, and friends, who support the school in so many ways. It is our pleasure to work with you in a continued partnership to develop young men of faith, integrity, and scholarship.

1 Includes tuition and book fees, net of financial aid.

2 Other income includes assistance from the Christian Brothers, student fees, spirit wear sales, gate revenue, and miscellaneous income.

3 Administration includes taxes, licenses, contracted services, insurance, administrative salaries and benefits, security, and admissions.

4 Institutional advancement inludes donor relations, alumni relations, communication, fundraising, and public relations.

5 Pending Board approval.

Operating Expenses and Reserve Transfers

Operating Income Other Income Release of Restricted Income

Investment Income Contributions and Net Fundraising

Financial Aid

Funding of Reserves Institutional Advancement

Administration

Tuition and Fees 86%

Tuition and Fees,1 Contributions and Net Fundraising Investment Income Other Income 2 Release of Restricted Income

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$ 17,210,000 835,000 686,000 503,000 802,000

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2013 - 2014 PARENT HONOR ROLL OF DONORS (July 1, 2013 –June 30, 2014) Thank you, parents, for your generous gifts to the Annual Fund. The Annual Fund Benefits all students by supporting student programs, faculty development, financial aid, and much more. It is the “every year” gift that we ask of our entire community.

Parent response continues to increase, and we thank you for working with us towards our goal of one hundred percent participation.

Senior Parents Class of 2014 58.27% Anonymous (1) Mr. and Mrs. Larry C. Allen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dean M. Alms Mr. and Mrs. Bruno R. Bellafronte Mr. and Mrs. William H. Berriman Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Borosky Mr. and Mrs. David Briere Mr. Rodney C. Brinser and Ms. Stacey L. Harris-Brinser Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Callaway Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Carofanello Mr. and Mrs. Elvis R. Castelino Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Chiapello Mr. and Mrs. Sanjay Choudhary Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Conte Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Cozort Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Czarnecki Mr. Robert C. De Mercurio and Ms. Nancy L. Flaherty Mr. and Mrs. David L. Dildine Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Dille Mr. and Mrs. D'Leon A. Dolojan Mr. and Mrs. John F. Doyle '82 Mr. and Mrs. George C. Driscoll '76 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Duncan Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Dundon Mr. and Mrs. Craig Z. Egoian Ms. Karla L. Estell Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Steven N. Fairfield Mr. and Mrs. Israel Felix Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Fernandes Mr. and Mrs. Larry Fernandes Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Ferrante Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Franceschi Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Fregosi Mr. and Mrs. Keith R. Freitas Mr. and Mrs. William F. Fuller '81 Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Galbraith Mr. and Mrs. Louis G. Gervolino Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Giacoletti

Parent Participation Over the Years

Mr. and Mrs. James D. Gilchrist Mr. and Mrs. Miguel T. Gonzalez Mr. and Mrs. James M. Greaney, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Guelfi Mr. and Mrs. Steven Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. James D. Harbison Mr. and Mrs. Brian F. Haynes Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hecht Mr. and Mrs. Mike P. Hertel Mr. Andre R. Hill and Ms. Janine A. Guy Hill Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Hogan Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Hooper Mr. and Mrs. Julio C. Horna Mr. Guy S. Houston and Ms. Ingeborg E. Sorensen Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Hurley Mr. and Mrs. Blair Hurlock Dr. and Mrs. Alan K. Iannaccone Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo V. Ignacio Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Inglesby Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Jannisse '84 Mr. Philip M. Johnson '86 and Ms. Wendy M. Hatlelid-Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Johnston Mr. Gary C. Jones and Ms. Lydia B. Jeung Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Joyce Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karachewski Mr. and Mrs. John P. Keane Ms. Leigh A. Kirmsse and Ms. Melissa M. Kirmsse Mr. and Mrs. Kevin D. Koenig Mr. Larry A. La Mar and Dr. Colleen K. La Mar Dr. Sihao Lam and Dr. Fatima R. Pineda-Lam Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Leahy Mr. and Mrs. Martin O. Lewald Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Long Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Macy Mr. and Mrs. James D. Maher Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Maloney Mr. and Mrs. James L. Marcotte Mr. and Mrs. Patrick W. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McAdam Mr. and Mrs. Randy A. McCann '86 Mr. and Mrs. David T. McDonald Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Messman Mr. and Mrs. Joe Metcalf FALL 2014 UNION

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advancement Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Morris Mr. and Mrs. Eamon J. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Nakano Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery A. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Huy Q. Nguyen Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Nye Mr. and Mrs. Todd Pastorini Ms. Marianne A. Payne Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Peisson Mr. and Mrs. Bruce I. Pekari Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Perez Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Perino Mr. Paul J. Peterson and Ms. Suzanne T. Nuti Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Jay Polshuk Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Primasing Mr. Mark E. Ricco '82 and Ms. Shelly A. Little Mr. David M. Rico and Ms. Cindy L. Chan Mr. and Mrs. Adam Rios Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Rommel Rosales Mr. Lawrence J. Ross Mr. and Mrs. Juan Rovirosa Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Rueckert Mr. and Mrs. Jerome P. Russo Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Saccullo '82 Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Sanchez Ms. Linda A. Sarver Mr. and Mrs. Sblend Sblendorio Mr. Mark W. Schmidt and Ms. Suzanne M. Spillane-Schmidt Drs. John and Valerie Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Schwarz Mr. and Mrs. Adam G. See Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Semenchuk Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Senna Mr. and Mrs. Owen J. Shackleton Mr. Ravinesh K. Shankaran Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Sheets Mr. and Mrs. David Smith Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kent Strazza Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Talaugon Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Tan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Taylor Ms. Desiree M. Velasco Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Vella Mr. Danny V. Vu and Ms. Catrina N. Dang Mr. and Mrs. George M. Waidelich Mr. and Mrs. Clinton E. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wilm Mr. Jonathan H. Wilson and Ms. Dana C. Simi-Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Hoa T. Wong Ms. Yvonne Ybanez-Ramirez and Mr. Salvador E. Ramirez Mr. Michael R. Zumbo and Ms. Bonnie K. Toland-Zumbo

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Junior Parents Class of 2015

64.62%

Mr. and Mrs. David F. Abele Mr. David J. Afinowicz and Ms. Therese M. da Silva Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anicama Mr. and Mrs. William J. Anzoategui Dr. Ramsey Araj and Dr. Susan Dugoni Mr. and Mrs. Jaime Arana Mr. and Mrs. Louie J. Arias Mr. and Mrs. Othon Benavente Mr. and Mrs. Michael Benz Mr. and Mrs. Todd L. Bequette Mr. and Mrs. James D. Boland Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Bond Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Bornholtz Mr. Jason Brinkman Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Buckley Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Cahal Mr. and Mrs. Gianfranco Campa Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. Carmichael Mr. and Mrs. Paul Carter Mr. Myles A. Cheshier and Ms. Rita G. Moscuzza Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Clancey Mr. and Mrs. John Corpus Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Costello Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Crossen Mr. Jose R. Cumagun Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Dalpiaz Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Daul Mr. and Mrs. George J. Del Monte Mr. and Mrs. John A. DeMartini Mr. and Dr. Mark A. DeVincenzi Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Donachie Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Dougherty Mr. and Mrs. Marc D. Douville Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dron Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Mark G. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Engelhart '83 Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Eustaquio Mr. Frank A. Ficken and Mrs. Mary K. Adam Mr. and Mrs. Ashly Figueira Mr. and Mrs. Blaine R. Frost Mr. Dirk Fulton and Ms. Becky Kukkola Mr. and Mrs. Fabrizio Galli Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gardner Mr. Carl B. Godkin Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Guelld '81 Mr. and Mrs. David Hanan Mr. Robert P. Hanel and Ms. Anita P. Gursahani Mr. Jonathan R. Hardy Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Hare '83 Mr. and Mrs. Hal T. Harmon Mr. and Mrs. Grover Heiskell Ms. Kelly Hildebrand Mr. and Mrs. Sean Hogan Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Hooker

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Houghton Mr. and Mrs. Valentin Huerta Mr. and Mrs. Lon Huffman Mr. and Mrs. Grant M. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Janettas Mr. and Mrs. Dave Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Dana J. Kafka Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. King Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Kline Ms. Lynnette M. Kondra Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Lakers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Landry Mr. and Mrs. Sean Larkin Mr. and Mrs. Gregory M. Leiter Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lindsey Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Lofe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Loftus Mr. and Mrs. Noel Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Loyd Ms. Jennifer J. Machado Mr. C. P. Machado Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Madigan Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Markey Dr. Andrew Marshall and Dr. Lynne Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Louay Masarweh Mr. Barry L. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. McAdoo Mr. and Mrs. Greg L. McAdoo Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. McGranahan Mr. and Mrs. Rick Medeiros Mr. and Mrs. Marc K. Mitchell Mr. Michael J. Monaldo and Ms. Valerie A. Nagel Mr. and Mrs. Bonapart Morales Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morgan Ms. Irma Munguia Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Narcisse Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Needham Mr. and Mrs. Huy Q. Nguyen Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ogburn Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Olinger Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O. Oswald '83 Dr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ottati, Jr. '88 Mr. and Mrs. Pacifico Palacay Mrs. Margaret M. Pallack Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Pauline '80 Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Paulson Mr. and Mrs. William A. Pellegrini Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pelster '87 Mr. and Mrs. Ronaldo S. Perez Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Perko Mr. and Mrs. Mark Perlite Mr. and Mrs. James P. Peters Mr. and Mrs. James Portis Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Querubin Mrs. Donna L. Ramirez Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Reedy Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Reiland, Jr.

advancement Ms. Jeanette Reinholz Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Reuling Mr. and Mrs. William L. Ribera Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Rico Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Rigley Mr. and Mrs. James P. Riso Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Robichaud Mr. and Mrs. Vince Romeo Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Rueckert Mr. and Mrs. Dan Salhus Mr. and Mrs. Johnny J. C. Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Sandri Mr. and Mrs. Kent K. Sasaki Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Savio Ms. Cristin A. Schatz Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Scheibley Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Schneider '83 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Schoenthaler '83 Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Schumann Ms. Dorothy M. Scocci Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Senna Mr. and Mrs. Roger Short Mr. and Mrs. John Paul C. Sison Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Sitzmann Mr. and Mrs. Sergey Smirnov Mr. and Mrs. Allen F. Smoot IV Mr. and Mrs. Jim Songey Mr. and Mrs. Steve W. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Talmadge Mr. and Mrs. Chris O. Theodorakis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Tittel Mr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Tripp Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. VanderKlugt '87 Dr. Michael Varon and Dr. Cara Varon Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Villarama Mr. and Mrs. Jeff W. Vornhagen Mr. and Mrs. Dean C. Wallahan Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Wanket '79 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Wardy Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Warriner Mrs. Kelly A. Whalley Mrs. April Whitlow Mr. Timothy L. Whitlow '84 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Willard Mr. and Mrs. Marc Woodyard Dr. and Mrs. Yongmin Zhu Ms. Patricia M. Zuniga

Sophomore Parents Class of 2016 58.61%

Mr. and Mrs. Virgilio A. Abesamis Mr. Keith Adabie and Mrs. Judy Adabie Ms. Joelle E. Aiello Mr. and Mrs. Jason M. Allen Mr. Brian W. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Armistead Mr. and Mrs. Craig Ayers Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Balestreri Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo E. Barrientos Mr. and Mrs. Prak Bebarta

Mr. and Mrs. David Behiel Mr. and Mrs. Miklos C. Benko Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bentley Mr. Eric O. Berg and Mrs. Maria R. Berg-Herrera Mr. and Mrs. David M. Birka-White Ms. Diane P. Blake Mr. Patrick J. Blake Mr. and Mrs. James D. Boland Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Brasiel '82 Mr. and Mrs. Francis Byrne Mr. and Mrs. Lorne F. Chambers Ms. Victoria J. Cinco Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Cole Dr. Albert Cu and Ms. Yolanda Mendoza-Cu Mr. and Mrs. William Cygan Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Datte Mr. Robert C. De Mercurio and Ms. Nancy L. Flaherty Dr. and Mrs. David M. Dobin Mr. and Mrs. Roger G. Douglas Mr. Jeffrey E. Dozier Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Dunn Mr. and Mrs. John Dzenitis Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Eitelgeorge Mr. and Mrs. Steven N. Fairfield Mr. and Mrs. Linus J. Farias Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Fogarty Mr. and Mrs. Baird D. Fogel Mr. and Mrs. William F. Forester Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Foust Mr. Christopher Frumenti '82 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Fuller '81 Mrs. Abigail Galan Mr. and Mrs. Steve R. Giambalvo Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Gray Mr. and Mrs. James M. Greaney, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Guistolise Mr. and Mrs. Gus Halas Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Hardiman Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hassett Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hays Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Henderson '83 Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Hinckley '84 Mr. and Mrs. Scott K. Hirsch '82 Ms. Nancieanne Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Hourigan Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Hughes Mr. Kiril I. Iliev Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Jones Mr. and Mrs. William F. Jones Ms. Sharene Kacyra Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Karleskind Dr. and Mrs. Jerry F. Katz Ms. Janice Kelso Mr. and Mrs. William Kemper Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G. Koelzer Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Kolling Mr. and Mrs. Brian L. Lagomarsino Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lappin Mr. Thomas Lee II

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. Lencioni Mr. and Mrs. Lester Lesavoy Mr. and Mrs. David Leyman Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Nick Macarchuk III Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Mague Mr. and Mrs. Chris Maloney Mr. Gene Mangini Mr. and Mrs. Oliver D. Mapua Mr. and Mrs. John McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. David T. McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Mercier Mrs. Hanne B. Merritt Mr. and Mrs. George Mimms II Mrs. and Mr. Desiree K. Monsarrat-Roy Mr. and Mrs. Veniero A. Monti Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Moody Mr. and Mrs. John Nai Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. Neufeld Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Neves Mr. and Mrs. Miles Nikaido Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Nye Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Oatley Ms. Czon S. Oliveros Mr. and Mrs. Jordan D. Olivier Mr. and Mrs. Martin H. Olson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. O'Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Oxman Mr. and Mrs. John M. Pacelli Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Pauline '88 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Perrey Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Peters Mr. and Mrs. Robert Raines Mr. and Mrs. James A. Redmond Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Ridgway Dr. Christine M. Riley Ms. Gina Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Romano '83 Dr. and Mrs. Rennie S. Roque Mr. and Mrs. Rene V. Ruano Dr. and Mrs. Carl R. Runyon Mr. Lawrence Bell and Mrs. Sandra Sabatino-Bell Mr. and Mrs. Hassan Samimi Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sanderson Ms. Holly Scherman Mr. Joseph Scherman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Schlagel Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Schwarz Mr. and Mrs. Michael Scott Mr. and Mrs. Ricky E. Serrano Mrs. Emily Shanks Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Shess Mr. and Mrs. John J. Simonelli Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. David L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Smith Ms. Linh D. Sparks Mr. and Mrs. Renton C. Squires Mr. and Mrs. Gregory H. Starkman Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Stegner

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advancement Mr. and Mrs. Dominic J. Stull Mr. Kevin M. Sullivan and Mrs. Tamara Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Tanner Mr. and Mrs. John Thuma Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Tomkovicz Mr. and Mrs. Christopher H. Trinkus Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Y. True Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Tyser Dr. and Dr. Bernabe F. Urbano Ms. Helena P. Valentine Ms. Sandra J. Vella-Andrade Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Vernon II '85 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Vest '83 Mr. and Mrs. Mike Vollman Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Vranesh '85 Mr. and Mrs. David Waite Mr. and Mrs. James G. Wardy Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Webb Mr. and Mrs. Clinton E. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Wong Ms. Teresa C. Zocchi Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Zocchi '74 Mr. Michael R. Zumbo and Ms. Bonnie K. Toland-Zumbo

Freshmen Parents Class of 2017 69.76%

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Abbas Mr. and Mrs. Jack V. Aiello Mr. and Mrs. Dean M. Alms Mr. and Mrs. John Arnaudon Mr. and Mrs. Craig Ayers Mr. Florent Baillot and Dr. Nadine Kindy Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Barsi Mr. David W. Bartels and Mrs. Barbara E. Weltzer Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Bayham Mr. David E. Behring Mrs. Lisa A. Behring Mr. and Mrs. Frank Benavidez Mr. and Mrs. Edgar R. Berdiago Dr. and Mrs. Craig S. Bindi Mr. and Mrs. James Blair Mr. and Mrs. Jim R. Blair Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Bornholtz Dr. and Mrs. Steve L. Boss Mr. and Mrs. Raycho Buhlev Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Julius Campos Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Cannon Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Caputo Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Carano Ms. Marcela Cardenas Mr. and Mrs. Enrique F. Carranza Mr. and Mrs. Elvis R. Castelino Mr. Robert J. Corning and Ms. Mary F. Chapman Corning Mr. and Mrs. Chester Chappell Dr. Steve Cheng and Dr. Nhu Pham Mr. and Mrs. Pravesh Chopra Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Clay '92 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Cole

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Mr. and Mrs. David J. Colello Mr. and Ms. Kenneth W. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Aldred Colquitt Mr. and Mrs. Jorge A. Cordova Dr. and Mrs. Paul S. Cortez Mr. Alan Covaia and Ms. Deborah Collins Mr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Covington Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Craig Mr. and Mrs. Garth J. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Crow Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Cruz Mr. and Mrs. Owen Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. Len Curran Mr. and Mrs. George J. Del Monte Mrs. Mariajose D. C. DeOsuna Ms. Laurine M. Domenici Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Donachie Mr. and Mrs. Marc D. Douville Mr. and Mrs. Randy Drake Mr. and Mrs. George C. Driscoll '76 Mr. and Mrs. Craig A. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Juan A. Espinoza Ms. Karla L. Estell Dr. David P. Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Joel G. Francisco Mr. and Mrs. Lee Friedman Ms. Joanne E. Galvin Mr. and Mrs. Jaime Garza Mr. and Mrs. George I. Ghantous Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Gotvald Mrs. Elizabeth H. Grywczynski Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon M. Hackett Mr. Elias Haddad and Ms. Janice Nugent Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Hall Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Hanna Mr. and Mrs. James D. Harbison Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Hardwick Mr. and Mrs. Hal T. Harmon Mr. and Mrs. Mathew K. Hattich Mr. and Mrs. William B. Haughey Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Headley Mr. and Mrs. Grover Heiskell Mr. and Mrs. Wayne E. Howard Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Huguet Dr. and Mrs. Alan K. Iannaccone Mr. and Mrs. Adrian M. Ivanov Mr. and Mrs. Jon Jacques Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Janettas Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson '89 Mr. Michael S. Jordan and Ms. Linda A. LaSorsa Mr. and Mrs. Dana J. Kafka Mr. and Mrs. Jason Kagel Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Kalcic Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Kerns Mr. and Mrs. David J. Klapperich '87 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Klapperich Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Knoedler '84 Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Knoll

Mr. and Ms. Joseph F. Knox Mrs. Larissa Koroleva and Mr. Chett Salzman Ms. Denise Larkin Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Lauer Mr. and Mrs. Lee LeGate Mr. and Mrs. William C. Levins Ms. Margarita Lezcano Dr. and Mrs. David A. Lilienstein Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Loker Mr. and Mrs. David Lonestar Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lonestar Mr. Derwin K. Longmire Ms. Amy R. Madrid Mr. and Mrs. Oliver D. Mapua Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McAdam Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. McCourt Mrs. Sandra A. McFarland Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Menefee Mr. and Mrs. Brian Merrion Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Mijares Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Julio R. Miranda Mr. and Mrs. Joenil O. Mistal Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Todd Molyneux Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Monasterial Mr. and Mrs. Victor Montez Mr. and Mrs. David W. Morgan Mr. Peter Neels Mr. and Mrs. Vernon J. C. Nicolas Mr. J. P. Nixon and Ms. Gina Cattalini Mr. and Ms. Brent K. Nomura Mr. and Mrs. Ero Oaiya Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. O'Connell Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Dea Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. O'Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. O'Hare Mr. and Mrs. John P. O'Reilly Mr. and Mrs. Humberto Ornelas Mr. and Mrs. William M. Orr Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O. Oswald '83 Dr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ottati, Jr. '88 Mr. and Mrs. Luis Padilla Mr. and Mrs. Rodney N. Pagila Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Peters Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Petersen Mr. and Ms. Ralph Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Leo Pham Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Pickett Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Pierce Mr. and Ms. Mike Pitek Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Ragusano Mr. and Mrs. Ed Randle Mr. and Mrs. Greg Redmond Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Reiser Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Ridgway Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Rigley Mr. and Mrs. Stan Rivera Mr. and Mrs. Nelson M. Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. William S. Rorke

advancement Ms. Ann L. Rosselli Mr. David P. Rosselli '81 Mrs. Michelle G. Roth Woerner Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rowen Mr. Paul Santiago and Mrs. Jennifer Buchell Mr. and Mrs. Sid Savarani Ms. Cristin A. Schatz Mr. Todd H. Schoenfeld Mr. and Mrs. Eric Schueler Mr. Diron C. Scott Mrs. Evangeline N. Scott Mrs. Carla M. Seeno Mr. and Mrs. Mario E. Selva Mr. and Mrs. Brook E. Serafino '87 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shahab Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Sheets Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Sherman '86 Mr. and Mrs. Todd Sintic Mr. Bobby L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. James Sortino Mr. and Mrs. Erik O. Sotomayor

Dr. Charlene B. Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Chris P. Stauber Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stone Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Sypniewski Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. Tiangsing Mr. and Mrs. Tanner G. Tingey Mr. and Mrs. Christopher H. Trinkus Dr. and Mrs. Stanislaus J. Tuholski '90 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Vornhagen Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Vrionis Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Waite Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wallunas Mr. and Mrs. Timothy F. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Weston Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wiley Mr. and Mrs. Kyle H. Willet Mr. and Mrs. Masten G. Willis Mr. Michael S. Woerner Mr. and Mrs. Alborz A. Wozniak John S. Wright Family Dr. and Mrs. Chris Wright Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ziolkowski

De La Salle’s Honor Roll of Donors recognizes parent gifts made to The De La Salle Annual Fund from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.

We have made every effort to provide a complete and accurate listing.

However, errors may occur, and we hope you will accept our sincere apologies. Please contact Director of Development Karla Wiese, in the Advancement Office at (925) 288-8195 or wiesek@dlshs.org, and we will correct our records.

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FACULTY AND STAFF HONOR ROLL OF DONORS Thank you, faculty and staff, for your leadership. In addition to their numerous contributions these individuals make in their various professional capacities and ministries, they have further demonstrated their dedication to our students with their support of the De La Salle Annual Fund. We are proud to report that by mid-September we reached 100 percent participation. Why do these dedicated professionals give?

“I give because…”

“…because I know that my gift will help a teenager become a responsible, compassionate, and loving young man. I have seen the power of De La Salle to change lives.”

“…because I get to see the direct result of the generosity of this community in the classroom, on the playing field, at service sites, and on retreat.”

“…because this school gave so much to me as a student: My life was literally changed because of my time at De La Salle, and my gift says thank-you.” “…because St. La Salle called us to be like older brothers and sisters to our students. My support of De La Salle feels like encouragement of my younger brothers.”

Anonymous (6) Viki Acquistapace Wendy Aliotti Joe Aliotti Justin Alumbaugh '98 Brett Anderson '97 Janet Appel Michael Appel Michael Aquino Felix Armenta Douglas Bauman Sherry Bedford Dr. Elizabeth Berkes Andrew Berkes Walter Bradford Sean '97 and Emerald Bristol Derricke Brown Greg Brown-Davis '97 Sandy Bustos Linda Byrne Matthew Castello '80 Alfredo Chua Greg and Ann Clouthier Larry Colon Patricia Crane David Cunningham Christian Curry '89 Michael Dal Poggetto Arturo DeLaMora Mark '78 and Lori DeMarco Rebecca DeWeese Omar Diaz Lillian Dickson Scott '94 and Sarah Drain John Dyer Terry Eidson David and Monica Fryman Vanessa Gai Marilyn and Paul Gardner Kelly and Mike Gardner Keith Gillette Richard Graham '90 Joseph Grantham

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J. A. Gray Robert Guelld '81 Steven Guthrie Brother Lawrence Haley, FSC '72 Father LaSalle Hallissey, OP '69 Matthew Harrison '96 Roger Hassett Mary Hassett Wanda Hedden Cathy Higaki Allan Hightman Scott Hirsch '82 Christopher Hood-Rosales '76 Cathy and Jon Jacques David Jeans Lynne Jones Jay Juarez Corey Kelly Kirk Kincaid Jordan Kirkner Bob Ladouceur Abel Lapid Brother Jesus Lara, FSC Kristin Leete Lissa Leigh Esther Lopez Leo '94 and Megan Lopoz Jose Lozano Greg MacArthur '03 Gordon and Joan MacDonald Kimberly MacLean Melissa Marnell Brother Patrick Martin, FSC Jeffrey and Siobhan Marzluft Michael Mattos Mary Ann Mattos John McDonough Alison McNell Raymond Meadows '97 Lindsay Melaas Kent '87 and Kim Mercer Tony Moore Guillermina Nicholson Zosimo Odal

Stephen Oelschlager James Olwell '76 Heather and Todd Pastorini Nick Pelosi '91 John Pelster '87 Livia Petrut Jose Portillo Russell Probst James Puccetti '02 Franco Reguzzoni Kathy Resch Janet Richards Clinton Riggs Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Roberts '88 Angelica Rodriguez Brother Michael Saggau, FSC Jose Sanchez Penny and Edward Sanders Octavio Sarmiento Linda Sarver Elaine Seed Lauren Seeno Kevin '91 and Emily Selby Diana Serrano Spencer Shively Margaret Silva Alexandra Stevenson Annemarie Talmadge Ida Tolentino Christopher Trinidad Dee Turrin Alber Valle Donald Van Bomel, Jr. and Kaitlin Barry Brother George Van Grieken, FSC Jeff Villafania Thomas Wickboldt Brother Robert Wickman, FSC Karla and David Wiese Ronald and Mary Yonekawa Rizalde Yu Jaime Zavala Robert Zorad

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The De La Salle Alumni Association continues to build on our efforts to educate alumni on the various funding initiatives of the school. Many are still surprised to learn that tuition does not cover M Concord, CA T the full cost to educate a student throughout the school year and our endowment is still in its infancy NI AS SO C IA (in comparison to other schools) – but continues to grow. More and more alumni “come back to De La Salle” by answering the call to support the Annual Fund to benefit all students. Thank you, Alumi, for your important participation in the Annual Fund:

Timeframe Participation FY 2007-08 FY 2008-09 FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2012-13 FY 2013-14

Alumni Annual Fund Participation Over the Years

Solicitable Alumni* 5,180 5,449 5,681 5,951 6,132 6,280 6,429

# Alumni Donors 167 269 288 408 463 472 503

% Change from Previous Year N/A 61.08% 7.06% 41.67% 13.48% 0.019% 6.36%

% Alumni

3.22% 4.94% 5.07% 6.85% 7.55% 7.51% 7.83%

* Solicitable Alumni is defined as alumni with valid contact information and not in college.

Anonymous (4) Mr. Timothy J. Berndt '69 Father LaSalle Hallissey, O.P. '69 Mr. Gary L. Weberling '69 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard W. Gollnick III '70 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Imhof '70 Mr. and Mrs. Jerome F. Klenow '70 Mr. and Mrs. James M. McCaughey '70 Mr. Robert J. Montgomery '70 Mr. and Mrs. David Benedetti '71 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore T. Boet '71 Mr. and Mrs. Sean M. Hogan '71 Mr. Robert F. O'Toole, Jr. '71 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Cumbelich '72 Dr. and Mrs. Mark W. Majesky '72 Mr. and Mrs. Darrell A. Moody '72 Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Wade, Jr. '72 Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Zenklusen '72 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Keenan '73 Mr. and Mrs. Harlan S. Kenyon III '73 Mr. Rick E. Koch '73 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Metzger '73 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Regan, Sr. '73 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Schratz '73 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Shoemaker '73 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Spiller '73 Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Wagner '73 Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Battle '74 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Celeri '74 Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Dias '74 Mr. Edmund P. Guelld ’74

Mr. Joseph B. Kearney '74 Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Zocchi '74 Mr. and Mrs. Gregg W. Boyd '75 Mr. Stephen D. Coghlan '75 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Price '75 Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Pursley '75 Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Streicher '75 Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Sullivan, Ph.D. '75 Mr. David J. Van Hoomissen '75 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Bruni '76 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick S. Cahill '76 Mr. Michael J. Cashman '76 Dr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Devlin '76 Mr. and Mrs. George C. Driscoll '76 Dr. and Mrs. John D. Fichtenkort '76 Mr. Christopher A. Hood-Rosales '76 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Johnson '76 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Kensok '76 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. McKinnon '76 Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Mineart '76 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Olwell '76 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shoemaker '76 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Sullivan '76 Mr. Michael F. Sweeney '76 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Baldacci '77 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Bredbenner '77 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. DeBettencourt '77 Mr. Joseph L. Garaventa '77 Mr. Karl F. Kreft '77 Mr. and Mrs. James P. Mayer '77 Dr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Steeb, Jr. '77 Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Turner '77 Mr. J. K. Young '77

Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Cavallero '78 Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. DeMarco '78 Mr. and Mrs. John D. DeMatteo '78 Mr. Philip D. Donahue '78 Mr. Michael L. Lynch '78 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Piombo '78 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Rosellini '78 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Sullivan '78 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Eggers, Jr. '79 Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Elliott '79 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Skillman, Jr. '79 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Steeb '79 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Wanket '79 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Arvin '80 Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bassi '80 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Camera '80 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Castello '80 Mr. John F. Connell '80 Mr. Robert D. Flaig '80 Mr. and Mrs. John K. Hanecak '80 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. McNiff '80 Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Molinar '80 Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Mullen '80 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Pauline '80 Cdr. (Ret.) and Mrs. Edward A. Robertson, Jr. '80 Mr. and Mrs. Keith T. Schuler '80 Brother Kevin M. Slate, FSC '80 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Crespi '81 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ewins '81 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Fitzsimmons, Jr. '81 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Fuller '81 Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Guelld '81 Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Hazelwood '81 FALL 2014 UNION

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advancement Mr. Robert H. Palmer '81 Mr. Gregory P. Rosellini '81 Mr. David P. Rosselli '81 Mr. and Mrs. John E. White '81 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Brasiel '82 Mr. Paul E. Chahin '82 and Ms. Leslie R. Guerrero-Chahin Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Dolan '82 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Doyle '82 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Francis '82 Mr. Christopher Frumenti '82 Mr. and Mrs. Mike F. Hegeman '82 Mr. and Mrs. Scott K. Hirsch '82 Mr. John P. Hopfner '82 Mr. and Mrs. Mark P. Irving '82 Mr. and Mrs. Virginius N. Miller '82 Mr. Mark E. Ricco '82 and Ms. Shelly A. Little Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Rodgers '82 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Saccullo '82 Mr. Warren G. Weber '82 Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Abreu '83 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baldacci '83 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Belfiore III '83 Mr. and Mrs. David M. Cuddihy '83 Mr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Di Giovanni '83 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Engelhart '83 Mr. and Mrs. David A. Frankel '83 Mr. Robert D. Glynn III '83 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Hare '83 Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Henderson '83 Mr. Michael P. Hooke '83 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Jarrett '83 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O. Oswald '83 Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Peters '83 Mr. Neal P. Pitonak '83 Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Pugh '83 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Romano '83 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Schneider '83 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Schoenthaler '83 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Vest '83 Mr. and Mrs. Phillip J. Williamson '83 Mr. Michael R. Costello '84 Mr. and Mrs. Sean R. Edgar '84 Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Hinckley '84 Mr. and Mrs. Bryan D. Hoadley '84 Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Irving CPA '84 Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Jannisse '84 Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Knoedler '84 Mr. Eric J. Mercer '84 Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Palm '84 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Pels '84 Dr. Michael Twomey J. Rubino III '84 Mr. Scott W. Stephan '84 Mr. Timothy L. Whitlow '84 Reverend Matthew J. Blank '85 Dr. and Mrs. Jason R. Clark '85 Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Droll '85 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher O. Fry '85 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Grupalo '85 Mr. Walter H. Hagge '85 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Krochmal, Jr. '85

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Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Laiolo '85 Mr. and Mrs. David R. Lucas '85 Mr. and Mrs. Sean T. McCarthy '85 Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Panella '85 Mr. Richard A. Schmidt '85 Mr. Jeffrey R. Shepard '85 and Ms. Della Martinez Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Vernon II '85 Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Vranesh '85 Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Bianchina, Jr. '86 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. Burke '86 Mr. and Mrs. Kent L. Camera '86 Mr. and Mrs. Greg M. Carrillo '86 Mr. Gregg J. Chavaria '86 Mr. Michael A. Di Fiori '86 and Dr. Jamie Di Fiori Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fortner '86 Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Freeman '86 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Ghisletta '86 Mr. Timothy E. Grewis '86 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick T. Hannigan '86 Mr. Philip M. Johnson '86 and Ms. Wendy M. Hatlelid-Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Sean R. Jordan '86 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. King CFP '86 Mr. and Mrs. George R. Lotti, Jr. '86 Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Lynch '86 Mr. and Mrs. Randy A. McCann '86 Major and Mrs. Robert P. Mitchell '86 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Nevares '86 Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Palm '86 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy D. Robison '86 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Rollo '86 Lt. and Mrs. Laurence F. Ryan '86 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Savarese '86 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Sherman '86 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Strauch '86 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Swenson '86 Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Turner '86 Dr. and Mrs. Troy C. Van Pelt '86 Mr. and Mrs. Antonio L. Vernon '86 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Walsh '86 Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Beauchamp '87 Mr. Eric J. Dinaburg '87 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Francis '87 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Gibson '87 Mr. and Mrs. David J. Klapperich '87 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. LaCour '87 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Lofy '87 Mr. and Mrs. Kent M. Mercer '87 Mr. Thomas R. Mosel '87 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Paul '87 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pelster '87 Mr. Gregory S. Pron '87 Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Riley '87 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Rusca '87 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Salvemini '87 Mr. and Mrs. Brook E. Serafino '87 Mr. John P. Shoaff '87 and Mrs. Laura Sonjara Mr. and Mrs. Millen L. Simpson III '87 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Speaker '87 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Urizar, Jr. '87 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. VanderKlugt '87

Dr. and Mrs. James A. Brasiel '88 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Burke '88 Mr. Christopher N. Evans '88 Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey S. Gallagher Lilley '88 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Hinckley '88 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hockel '88 Mr. Steven Johnson '88 Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Jordan '88 Mr. Michael Joyce '88 and Mrs. Rachel Harris Mr. Jonathan Mortola '88 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Mullane '88 Dr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ottati, Jr. '88 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Pauline '88 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pieralde '88 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Roberts '88 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rosecrans '88 Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Stead '88 Mr. Michael R. Testa '88 Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Thompson '88 Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Van Slambrook '88 Mr. and Mrs. Ivan B. Vela '88 Mr. Christopher D. Walton '88 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Williams '88 Mr. Andy Zyla '88 Mr. and Mrs. Darren M. Anderson '89 Mr. Peter D. Asselin '89 Mr. Christopher H. Barry '89 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Brien '89 Mr. and Mrs. Christian N. Curry '89 Mr. and Mrs. Victor M. DeMelo '89 Mr. John F. Hauser '89 and Ms. Karman Ko Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hutcheson '89 Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson '89 Mr. Jose Leiva '89 Mr. Sean K. Mason '89 Mr. Dominick G. Mazotti '89 Mr. and Mrs. Casey C. Rhodes '89 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Shea '89 Mr. Matthew S. Wachowicz '89 Mr. Damon M. Williams '89 Mr. and Mrs. Todd M. Arritola '90 Mr. Patrick R. Ball '90 Mr. Matthew J. Clizbe '90 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Freeman '90 Mr. Todd A. Ghilarducci '90 Mr. Richard Graham '90 Mr. Brian Holm '90 Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Kearney '90 Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Mercer '90 Mr. Michael T. Nicholson '90 Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Shea '90 Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Southard '90 Dr. and Mrs. Stanislaus J. Tuholski '90 Mr. Anthony G. Viscia '90 Mr. Daniel J. Costello '91 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Daly '91 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Gaber '91 Mr. Jesse J. Glueck '91 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Helmer '91 Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Kelly, Jr. '91 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Koller '91

advancement Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy G. Merrick '91 Mr. and Mrs. Terence A. O'Prey, Jr. '91 Mr. and Mrs. Nick V. Pelosi '91 Mr. Richard R. Platt '91 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Selby '91 Mr. Michael J. Wasley '91 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Wilson '91 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Clay '92 Mr. and Mrs. Jeff B. Cortez '92 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Del Santo '92 Mr. Carlos O. DeLeon '92 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Higaki '92 Mr. and Mrs. Tyler J. Kannon '92 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. McDowell '92 Mr. Garth N. Adlao '93 Mr. David T. Byrne '93 Mr. John P. Connolly '93 Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Curran '93 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Flakoll '93 Mr. Andrew L. Freeman '93 Mr. Daniel W. Gagen '93 Mr. Stephen D. Lilly '93 Mr. David H. Melmed '93 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Molloy '93 Mr. Michael J. Prindiville '93 Mr. Steven M. Shaw '93 Mr. James D. Brosnan '94 Mr. and Mrs. Dalton C. Brown '94 Mr. and Mrs. Chris P. Del Santo '94 Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Drain '94 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Fake '94 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Gaber '94 Mr. Joshua W. Halsey '94 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Hintz '94 Mr. and Mrs. Mikel K. Hyatt '94 Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Kamp '94 Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Lopoz '94 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Mack '94 Mr. Matt Malone '94 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. McCarthy '94 Mr. Michael F. McKay II '94 Mr. Chris C. Molinaro '94 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick W. O'Keefe '94 Mr. Patrick M. O'Rourke '94 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Pelosi '94 Mr. Eric J. Quinn '94 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd V. Schine III '94 Mr. Joseph D. DeFalco '95 Mr. Neil R. Gagen '95 Mr. Morgan J. Hall '95 Mr. Joseph P. Harney '95 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Higaki '95 Mr. Drew C. Hodson '95 Mr. Jordan D. Kahn '95 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Koven '95 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Tschann '95 Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Adler '96 Mr. and Mrs. Zachary J. Ellman '96 Mr. Sean B. Gattis '96 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Harrison '96 Mr. D. Gregory G. Hintz '96 Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Irving '96

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Marchetti '96 Mr. and Mrs. Tim R. McCormac, Jr. '96 Mr. Neil R. O'Leary '96 Mr. and Mrs. Jason A. Ovadia '96 Mr. Kevin M. Pride '96 Mr. and Mrs. Dean Ian B. Quiambao '96 Mr. Jeffrey J. Reilly '96 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Rhodes '96 Mr. and Mrs. Roberto P. Santos '96 Mr. Kelly M. Story '96 Mr. and Mrs. David A. Adler '97 Mr. and Mrs. Brett J. Anderson '97 Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. Bristol '97 Mr. Greg G. Brown-Davis '97 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Coughlan '97 Mr. Harry J. Ein '97 Mr. Jeremy S. Gabe '97 Dr. Isiah D. Harris '97 Mr. Gregory K. Henley '97 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Kehoe '97 Mr. Joseph K. Koller '97 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory D. Krouse '97 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Meadows '97 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher N. Odne '97 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Palm '97 Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Randall '97 Mr. Christopher C. Shelley '97 Mr. Christian S. Warrell '97 Mr. Justin E. Alumbaugh '98 Mr. James W. Beall, Jr. '98 Mr. and Mrs. Nathan A. Burkhardt '98 Mr. Brian C. Engleton '98 Mr. Anthony R. Field '98 Mr. Matthew D. Geldermann '98 and Mrs. Tiziana Zanetti Mr. Cortland L. Golightly '98 Mr. Michael P. Gonzales '98 Mr. Wesley J. Hodson '98 Mr. and Mrs. Justin T. Keane '98 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. King '98 Mr. Michael W. Kredel '98 Mr. and Mrs. Colin L. Paterson '98 Mr. and Mrs. Joshua J. Quintero CMT '98 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rassier, Jr. '98 Mr. Darren J. Salmi, M.D. '98 Mr. Matthew R. Sansoe '98 and Mrs. Alice Liu Mr. Jack T. Schultz '98 Mr. Patrick J. Vesely '98 Mr. Richard J. Whelan '98 Mr. John J. Erdos '99 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond P. Foerster '99 Mr. Christopher G. Hesse '99 Mr. R. J. Magana '99 Mr. Taggart L. McCurdy '99 Mr. and Mrs. David W. Murphy '99 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Pappageorge '99 Mr. Rene A. Poblete II '99 Mr. Jesse J. Rodriguez '99 and Mrs. Nancy Cialdella Mr. Michael F. Bausch '00 Mr. Brandon T. Broughton '00 Mr. Alexander C. Cartwright '00 Mr. and Mrs. Colby R. Clegg '00

Mr. Dan L. Du Ree '00 Mr. Andrew K. Gardner '00 Mr. William D. Johnson '00 Mr. James B. Kehoe '00 Mr. and Mrs. Aaron J. Kuhle '00 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas E. Andrade '01 Mr. Peter M. Burns '01 Mr. John A. Dominguez '01 Mr. Erick Gonzalez '01 Mr. Jonathan J. Hardisty '01 and Mrs. Megan Ferri Mr. and Mrs. Adam E. Polk '01 Mr. Michael V. Randazzo '01 Mr. David P. Smith '01 Mr. William E. Steuber '01 Mr. Dustin M. Bourgeois '02 Mr. and Mrs. Ross M. Darby '02 Mr. John V. Davey '02 Mr. Garrett B. Denniston '02 Mr. and Mrs. Shaun D. Fontaine '02 Mr. Matthew P. Gutierrez '02 Mr. Sean E. Halligan '02 Mr. Thomas P. Hayes '02 Mr. Timothy A. Hodson '02 Mr. John E. Keane '02 Mr. Gregory K. Kosich '02 and Ms. Angelina Adler Mr. James S. Puccetti '02 Mr. R. Paul R. Rives, Jr. '02 Mr. James R. Roscelli '02 Mr. Clare A. Rowland '02 Mr. Anthony J. Sala '02 Mr. Walter J. Selby IV '02 Mr. and Mrs. Scott E. A. Smith '02 Mr. and Mrs. William S. Stringert '02 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan J. Sullivan '02 Mr. Kevin B. Vesely '02 Mr. Brad D. Waitrovich '02 Mr. Rogelio Avalos '03 Mr. Kevin W. Bacharach '03 Mr. and Mrs. Trenton M. F. Barmby '03 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Carey '03 Mr. Matthew J. Cirelli '03 Lt. Gregory M. Contreras '03 Mr. Ryan L. Cousins '03 Mr. Keegan M. Fraschieri '03 Mr. Silvio J. Garaventa '03 Mr. Parker S. Golightly '03 Mr. Thomas B. Johnson '03 Mr. Zalan M. Lorincz '03 Mr. Gregory D. MacArthur '03 Mr. Thomas J. Maddock '03 Mr. Erik M. Sandie '03 Mr. Ryan A. Waters '03 Mr. Chad N. Worth '03 Mr. Nicholas C. Cipolla '04 Mr. Andrew E. Curto '04 Mr. Oliver Duda '04 Mr. Anthony D. Fracchia '04 Mr. Robert J. Hayworth '04 Mr. Christopher R. Jensen '04 Mr. Mark A. Lopez '04 Mr. Robert L. Scheffler '04 FALL 2014 UNION

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advancement Mr. John C. Bonnikson '05 Mr. Andrew M. Camera '05 Mr. Joseph L. Depaoli '05 Mr. Scott W. Hugo '05 Mr. Mike W. Polidori '05 Mr. Christopher C. Roldan '05 Mr. Thomas S. Smith '05 Mr. Jacob S. Yount '05 Mr. Christopher R. Carroll '06 Mr. Michael V. Cipolla '06 Mr. Daen J. Ekpa '06 Mr. Lincoln D. Gunn '06 Mr. Robert M. Johnson '06 Mr. Cody J. Meyerhoff '06 Mr. Colin S. Niedermeyer '06 Mr. Clinton A. Nix '06 Mr. Robert E. Pohl '06 Mr. Anthony A. M. Vasta '06

Mr. Stephen W. Bennett '07 Mr. Joseph R. Bernardi '07 Mr. Stephen W. Crisafulli '07 Mr. Robert M. Depaoli '07 Mr. Zane E. Griffiths '07 Mr. Brandon J. Harrington '07 Mr. Benjamin T. Jansen '07 Mr. Zachary B. Klaas '07 Mr. Kevin D. P. Maggi '07 Mr. Tyler C. Park '07 Mr. John T. Reid '07 Mr. Jared R. Wagner '07 Mr. Jeffrey R. Wagner '07

Mr. Patrick M. Plumer '08 Mr. Brian R. Polidori '08 Mr. Joseph J. Ricioli '08 Mr. Andrew J. Roberts '08 Mr. Matthew G. Savage '08 Mr. Tyler B. Steeb '08 Mr. Robert A. Van Wyck '08

Mr. Timothy K. DeSimone '08 Mr. Antonio E. DeVilbiss '08 Mr. Steven J. Fleming '08 Mr. Eric J. Johnson '08 Mr. Michael R. MacGillivray '08

Mr. James D. Van Wyck '11

Mr. Eric J. Angerer '09 Mr. Joshua P. Keane '09 Mr. James R. Logan '10 Mr. Mackenzie R. Park '10

Mr. Alec I. T. Bruce '13 Mr. Eric M. Machado '13

2013 – 2014 Alumni Event Sponsors (July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014) Mr. Rick E. Koch '73 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Shoemaker '73 Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Zocchi '74 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Baldacci '77 Mr. John F. Connell '80 Mr. Christopher Frumenti '82 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baldacci '83 Mr. and Mrs. Sean R. Edgar '84 Mr. and Mrs. James B. Aberer III '86 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fortner '86 Mr. and Mrs. Luis F. Zapata '88 Mr. Jason C. Pauline '90

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Mr. Anthony G. Viscia '90 Mr. and Mrs. Dalton C. Brown '94 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher N. Odne '97 Mr. Matthew T. Gerhardt '99 Mr. Nickalos S. Hemmen '09 •••

De La Salle’s Alumni Honor Roll of Donors recognizes alumni monetary gifts made to the school from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014. We have

made every effort to provide a complete and accurate listing. However, errors may occur, and we hope you will accept our sincere apologies. Please contact Karla Wiese, Director of Development, in the Advancement Office at (925) 288-8195 or wiesek@dlshs.org, and we will correct our records.

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WHEN YOU DONATE, YOU ARE NOT SIMPLY A DONOR.

YOU ARE ALSO A TEACHER, AND YOUR GIFT IS A TEACHING MOMENT. Your gifts teach our students to be givers in their turn. You model for them generosity, concern, and foresight. When they see how much you value this education, they see more clearly its value for themselves. Read what one of our students in the Bishop John S. Cummins Scholarship Program for very-low-income families wrote to the donors who support that program.

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Every Gift Is a Major Gift

Every supporter and every gift is crucial to the fulfillment of our mission, and there are many ways to give:

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Pledges — commitments payable over three to five years.

Outright Gifts — gifts of cash are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Endowed Gifts — a lasting tribute to your chosen honoree or for a specific program.

Stocks, Securities, Real Property — are tax-deductible based on market value, and donors can avoid capital gains taxes on appreciated property.

Matching Gifts — employers will double or even triple an employee’s gift. Currently more than 145 companies take part.

In-Kind Gifts — goods or commodities relevant to our educational program.

Vehicles — a car, truck, RV, or boat can be a tax-deductible donation.

United Way — De La Salle is qualified as a recipient of United Way donations.

Bequests — Remembering De La Salle in your will creates a lasting legacy (see above).

Planned Giving — Planned and deferred gifts, through appreciated stock, bonds, real property, bequests, trusts, and insurance, provide mutually beneficial giving opportunities; and can provide significant tax advantages to donors.

Visit www.dlshs.org and click on the Support De La Salle tab for complete information, forms, and secure online transactions. Or contact Chief Advancement Officer Heather Pastorini at (925) 288-8106 or pastorinih@dlshs.org.

De La Salle High School thanks you for your support.

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An Evening of Honor 2014

De La Salle honors its Distinguished Alumnus of the Year and inducts new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame.

The Distinguished Alumnus of the Year is Sean Farnham ’96.

Sean Farnham is a college basketball analyst for ESPN television and now occupies the first broadcast chair for SEC games. Sean joined the ESPN team after a 10-year stay with Fox Sports. Sean has emerged as a well-known and highly regarded on-camera presence. His love for sports blossomed at De La Salle. After a great freshman year in basketball, he joined the varsity squad as a sophomore, started as a junior and senior, and was captain as well as MVP in senior year. After his Spartan career, he journeyed to UCLA on a basketball scholarship.

Five years ago his leadership resulted in the creation of “Hoops from Home,” a non-profit initiative bringing basketball clinics to children of active military personnel. Our Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony has benefited enormously from Sean’s generous service as Master of Ceremonies since its inception.

facility on campus where injury prevention and rehabilitation can be provided. Doc is a leader in philanthropy, both locally and globally, and is known for tirelessly putting his medical skills at the service of those in need. Among his many generosities is the Bruce Wilhelmy Leadership Award, created by Doc and his wife Mary (“M’lu”) and named for Doc’s brother. It is given to a DLS senior who displays outstanding academic and leadership qualities in his community. (The photo here shows Doc with sons Sean (left) and Chris.)

Sean grew up in a loving family with mom Vicky, dad Mike, and older sister Shannon, CHS ’93. Sean’s Lasallian roots are deep, as his dad graduated from the Christian Brothers’ Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco, in 1965. Sean lives in the Los Angeles area where he and his wife Sarah, another UCLA graduate, (to be inducted into the Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, Hall of Fame in March as a distnguished soccer player) are the proud parents of Jack, age 9, Morgan, age 7, and Kellen, age 3.Sean was the “Voice of the Spartan” as a senior and continues to be the epitome of Spartan values and loyalty!

De La Salle Athletic Hall of Fame. Eligible for nomination are athletes, coaches, teams, staff members, and supporters. We welcome the Hall of Fame Inductees of 2014.

Dr. John K. Wilhelmy. Orthopaedic surgeon John Wilhelmy has been an asset to our athletic program for more than thirty years. “Doc” is the father of three De La Salle alumni (Chris ’03, Sean ’04, and Patrick ’07). He has been an innovator in bringing the medical world into the athletic world going back to the 1980’s and was instrumental in developing the school’s relationship with Muir Orthopedic Specialists, helping the Athletic Department to develop a staff and a

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1985 Football Team. A true band of brothers, this group of student-athletes brought the football program to a new level as our first nationally ranked team. They won the league title and the North Coast Section title, outscoring opponents 323 to 69 over eleven games. This team also opened up our boundaries by taking on teams from outside the Bay Area, when it was thought that a small school like DLS could not meet such a challenge. It is recognized as one of the best Spartan teams of all time. Coach Ladouceur summed up their body of work best in a 1985 local TV interview. When asked if he felt his team was the best around, he said, in true Lad fashion, a single word: “Sure.”

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1996 Soccer Team. The great teams of 1989 and the early to mid1990s continue to be an inspiration to student-athletes today. The 1996 varsity achieved an incredible record, going undefeated, with 20 wins and 3 draws, and allowing only three goals in those 23 games, while scoring 59 goals of their own, as they won both the league and section titles. Gritty defense, an attacking offense, and great goalie play were all key to their achievements, and their legacy endures as arguably the best soccer team in De La Salle history.

Rob Lambert ’81. Rob Lambert was a star dual sport competitor, excelling in football and baseball. Named Outstanding Back by his peers on the football team, Rob was a wide receiver and defensive back who earned All Northern California honors and led the Spartans to their first-ever ranking as one of the Top Ten teams in California. When Rob went from the gridiron in the fall to the diamond in the spring, there was no letdown in effort or achievement. As a senior, Rob was honored as De La Salle’s Athlete of the Year.

Greg Brown-Davis ’97. Greg BrownDavis, now a De La Salle teacher and coach, is a rare combination of talents. On the gridiron, he dominated on both sides of the line of scrimmage and earned a football scholarship to Oregon State University. On the mat, he won the NCS title and placed fourth in the state, the highest place ever to that date for a Spartan grappler. In the pool, or rather above it, he competed in the NCS as a diver with a repertoire of more than a dozen dives. Greg was co-Athlete of the Year in 1997.

Joe See ’01. See rhymes with free, as in free throws. Joe sank two historic ones in the 2000 State Championship game to give the Spartans the title.

Before Joe stepped to the line, Coach Allocco leaned over to Coach Sullivan and said, “We just won the championship.” The confidence was merited, as Joe had started on varsity for four years and had set virtually every

Spartan scoring record. His dedication to De La Salle basketball helped to take the program to new heights. And perhaps more important than his prolific scoring was the respect he earned as one of the hardest-working players ever.

Demetrius Williams ’01. When you grow up, will you play in the NBA or the NFL? A fantasy question for most kids, but an athlete with the talents of Demetrius Williams has to consider it seriously early in life. Leading the Spartans in 2000 to a state title in basketball, and racking up yards and scores on the football field, his ability and potential were apparent. He accepted a scholarship to play football at the University of Oregon and was later drafted by the Baltimore Ravens, where he enjoyed several productive seasons as a wide receiver. How many people can say that their last play in the NFL was an 80-yard touchdown?

Matt Gutierrez ’02. One of the toughest competitors in De La Salle history, and one of the hardest-working athletes ever to suit up as a Spartan, Matt played three years of varsity football with an undefeated record, quarterbacking the team in the middle of “The Streak.” He was also a force on the basketball court, and a member of the state champion squad in 2000.

After graduating from DLS he played football at the University of Michigan and Idaho State. Matt went on to play several years in the NFL, and more recently is a welcome presence on the DLS campus, helping to mentor today’s student-athletes in the football program.

The Evening of Honor induction ceremony is on campus October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., with master of ceremonies Sean Farnham ’96. To register, visit the school website. Questions? Contact Director of Alumni Relations Tim Roberts ’88 at robertst@dlshs.org or 925-288-8171.

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Staying in Touch: What’s Happening?

CALLING ALL CLASSES on 5’s and 0’s:

Class of 2010: 2015 will be your year for your first class reunion.

Classes of 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, 1985, 1980, 1975, and 1970 will also gather, to renew the brotherhood and keep the De La Salle connection alive. Visit the Alumni page of the website regularly to keep up on all activities. And join us on Facebook and LinkedIn.

George Nessman ’77 has been named Athletic Director at Justin-Siena High School, our Lasallian sister school in Napa.

George has been a very successful basketball coach at several schools (De La Salle among them), most recently as head coach at San Jose State from 2005 to 2013.

Mike Mitchell ’75 is the founder of Project Play Africa. Its mission is to bring the gift of play to some of the poorest children in the world. Mike says, “I have considered myself a grassroots philanthropist since serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa, 20 years ago. Over the last five years, with the help of friends who believed in my vision, and the generosity of many donors, Project Play Africa has become a reality.” In the photo, 10,400 soccer balls are about to be offloaded in Niger. To learn more, visit the Project Play Africa website.

Scott Fortner ’89 is a distributor for Bistro Blends of Napa Valley, purveyor of gourmet olive oils and other fine items. Scott can be found online at the Bistro Blends website.

Brother Bill Fortner ’86 is a managing director at Lincoln Financial Advisors and a member of the De La Salle Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Noah Frank ’01 is Digital Sports Editor at WTOP.com. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in film studies with an emphasis in television, and a sports management minor. He has worked all over the country and held jobs in the sports industry ranging from Minor League Baseball public

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relations director to Major League Lacrosse public address announcer. Most recently, he ran social media and wrote for the Washington Nationals.

Ryan Parkhouse '07 has been named Head Rugby Coach at Regis University in Denver.

Spartans rugby coach Rob Duncanson says, "While we have had many players go on to play at college and international levels, Ryan now has broken ground as our first DLS alumnus to be a college head coach!"

After playing four years of rugby at De La Salle, Ryan was recruited to Regis, where he played rugby and earned degrees in Business Marketing and Business Management. He graduated in 2011.

Jeff Wagner ’07 has done cancer research at UCSF and is now in his first year of medical school at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. To hear directly from Jeff about his work, and how De La Salle prepared him for it, see page 6.

Julian Homburger ’09 graduated from Cornell University and is now doing doctoral studies at Stanford in Genomics. To hear directly from Julian about his work, and how De La Salle prepared him for it, see page 6.

Johnny De Los Reyes ’11 won the 87th annual Alameda Commuters Golf Tournament in May and tied the tournament record with a 72-hole score of 266, 18 strokes under par. Johnny is now starting his senior year at Saint Mary's College in Moraga.

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Send your news and photos to Tim Roberts, Director of Alumni Relations, at robertst@dlshs.org.

— Log on at www.dlshs.org/alumni.

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Brother Maris Golf Is May 11, 2015: Come Join the Fun st

The 31st annual Brother Maris Golf Tournament, hosted by the De La Salle Alumni Association, is on Monday, May 11, 2015, at beautiful Diablo Country Club. The event honors Brother Maris Spillane, FSC, a teacher and golf coach in De La Salle’s early days, and the proceeds fund scholarships to De La Salle. A shotgun start, fun contests, special hole prizes and hole-in-one prizes, and the high-stakes shootout. The event sells out fast, and registration online opens eight weeks prior to the day. The fun includes tee prizes, refreshments, lunch, and end-of-day cocktail reception, with raffles, silent auctions, and live auction. Join us in the fundraising for Alumni Endowment scholarships for Spartans of the future.

For information, call Tim Roberts ’88 at 925-288-8171.

Meet Your De La Salle Alumni Association Board of Directors

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The De La Salle Alumni Association serves the entire De La Salle family by deepening alumni engagement in the life of the school. Our gratitude goes to these Alumni who serve the school as members of the DLSAA Board of Directors. They are committed to our Catholic, Lasallian tradition and to ensuring the school’s enduring ability to carry out its educational mission.

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Anthony Pappageorge ’99 John T. Rassier ’98 Paul Rives ’02 Rick Steeb ’79 Chris Straface ’06 Richard Whelan ’98 (Board President)

You don’t need to be a Board member to be involved. There are many opportunities to contribute to the welfare of our school and the richness of our community life along with your Spartan brothers. The DLSAA Executive Committee helps with strategic management of the Alumni Board. The Honors and Recognition Committee supports programs that promote the personal, professional, and service successes of our alumni. The Reunions Committee supports Class Year and Affinity Group Reunions.

The Outreach Committee supports the planning and execution of programs and events that increase De La Salle alumni contact with the school. The Young Alumni Committee helps with programs targeted to keep Young Alumni connected with De La Salle. The Advancement Committee supports efforts to increase alumni giving and philanthropic support of De La Salle High School.

For more information on how you can become involved, contact Director of Alumni Relations, Tim Roberts, at robertst@dlshs.org or 925-288-8171.

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In Memoriam

May they rest in peace…with God forever.

Lois Adduci mother Phillip J. Adduci '93 Ralph Baxter friend of De La Salle High School Chuck Bellia grandfather of Joseph Lawler '01, Domonick Lawler '02, Anthony Lawler '06 and Michael Lawler '07 Michael Bocchicchio, Sr. father of Christopher J. Bocchicchio '08 Nancy Brown grandmother of Cecil M. Abono Mercedes Carlos grandmother of Javier D. Carlos '02 Kathy Cava mother of Brian J. Cava '94 Kenneth D. Clark father of Dan Clark '82 Lola "Betty" Del Grande fLola "Betty" Del Grande George Edward DeLuca friend of De La Salle High School Ann Derkowski grandmother of Anthony J. Ciullo '05 Primo E. Facchini father of Primo R. Facchini '81 Genevieve Farizell friend of De La Salle High School Denise B. Fisher parent of Nathan E. Fisher '17 and Harrison Fisher '18 Arthur J. Gagnon father of Gregory A. Gagnon '73 and Jeffrey C. Gagnon '79 Marjorie George grandmother of Matthew George '05 and Brian George '07 Paul E. Gray brother of Director of Communications J. A. Gray Majel Hellsten mother of Gary C. Hellsten '89 and Phillip E. Hellsten '93 Kathleen Hulburd grandmother of Kyle J. Hulburd '13 Edith Jhala grandmother of Stephen S. Hancock '07

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Theresa Jones mother of Phillip G. Jones '93 Penn D. Keller father of Marc W. Keller '79 Garland Kent grandfather of staff member Jay Juarez Caroline F. Kirkham friend of De La Salle Devin M. Knoll brother of Connor P. Knoll '10 Larry Lanter '81 Mary Robbiano Leone grandmother of Kevin Selby ‘91 Jeanne I. Lindorfer mother of Kurt R. Lindorfer '77 Leila Liuzza sister of faculty member Lillian Dickson Glenn S. Madison '83 Douglas E. Magnoli ’71 brother of Marc Magnoli ’73 and cousin of Jon Cardinalli ’72 (deceased) Mary Ellen Marzo mother of John A. Marzo '84 and Robert Marzo '88 Margaret May mother of staff member Marilyn Gardner Jules F. Mayer grandfather of Yujin Jules Ito '99 Earl McClaskey father of Eric W. McClaskey '85 and Kevin G. McClaskey '88 John "Jack" McNamara father of John J. McNamara '85 Brian Medeiros '83 Robert Morano father of Christopher M. Morano ’92 and Joseph R. Morano ‘94 Bruce Nelson father of Thomas E. Nelson '11 Caesar Nuti grandfather of Gregory P. Peterson '14 Janet O'Callaghan mother of Daniel O'Callaghan '79

Violet Oncena grandmother of Frankie O. Santelises '12 Ray Peterson father of Jeffrey L. Petersen '79 and Gary R. Petersen '84 (deceased) Doris Rebollini mother of Michael D. Rebollini '71 Carolyn Diane Rembrandt mother of David T. Rembrandt '87 Lois Ann Resch mother of William F. Resch '77 and grandmother of Michael C. Cannon '13 Stanley Roche parent of David S. Roche '84 and William V. Roche '86 Dolly M. Rose friend of De La Salle High School Lucille Salvador grandmother of Louis J. Salvador '98, Joseph D. Salvador '01, Anthony L. Salvador '02 Sandra Ann Sansoe mother of Michael J. Sansoe '01 and Matthew R. Sansoe '98 Joseph Scalmanini father of John Scalmanini '07 Michael Souza father of Michael J. Souza '80 and Anthony Souza '83 Jeane Tharratt grandmother of Giuseppe W. Tomasino '08 Jane K. Thorne mother of Aaron L. Thorne '99 James E. Tierney pfather of John B. Tierney '87 and Gabriel E. Tierney '89 Lucille Trager grandparent of James B. Aberer III '86 Billy Vassiliou '86 Joseph W. Vitt grandfather of faculty member James S. Puccetti '02

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“To be educated by, work and live with these Brothers left a deep impression on how I should spend my life in the service of others, especially those less fortunate, all in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Rev. Andrew Spyrow, De La Salle class of 1978, is a priest for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and is now a parochial vicar at St. Raphael parish in San Rafael.

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Father Andrew Spyrow ’78 was ordained on June 7, 2014. This interview was originally published in Catholic San Francisco, (May 30, 2014). Photo by Golden Images.

ndrew Spyrow was born in Concord, the fourth of five boys and the elder of two fraternal twins.

He attended Queen of All Saints School with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and says “to this day I still know all my teachers by name.” He attended De La Salle High School and Diablo Valley Community College, and graduated from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration and religious education He volunteered and worked in religious education and with high school youth. He has served as a lector and extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. He has taught religious education, led retreats for teens and served as a director for retreat programs for the De La Salle Christian Brothers in St. Helena. He lived in community with the Christian Brothers in Fresno and was a teacher, director of student activities, and high school campus minister. He worked professionally in banking, and as a funeral director, managing five locations and serving several hundred families a year prior to entering St. Patrick’s Seminary and university in Menlo Park. When he was accepted to the seminary, Spyrow was a member of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, where he led RCIA and religious education and co-chaired the stewardship committee.

Who most inspired your vocation and why?

I would say it was the De La Salle Christian Brothers. These are a group of men who are truly dedicated to the mission of St. John Baptist de la Salle and are very serious about their faith. Having the opportunity to be educated, work and live with these brothers left a deep impression on how I should spend my life in the service of others especially those less fortunate, all in the name of Jesus Christ.

What do you most look ahead to as a priest?

To say Mass daily for the people of God and to bring Jesus Christ to those who may be skeptical, angry, lost and broken.

What do you like to do in your free time?

Free time? What’s that? No, I enjoy going crabbing, fishing, visiting my family and friends. Now that I have free time prior to ordination I plan to spend time with my parents who will be celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary this year.

What is one of your favorite Bible passages?

John 15:13. “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” To spend my life for others and not for myself has always brought me closest to Jesus Christ and the joy in that compares to nothing else.

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A Brotherhood of Service.

The De La Salle motto “Leave to Serve” is taken seriously by the McNell brothers, and service was a habit even before they left De La Salle (all four were Eagle Scouts during their teens). Richard, class of 2003, attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, was commissioned, and served six years on active duty including deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He recently left the Air Force, with the rank of captain, to join the private sector. Sam, class of 2008, is also an Air Force Academy graduate. He is now a second lieutenant and has just completed the first phase of pilot training. Jack, class of 2009, graduated from the University of Portland with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and is currently working for a plastic surgeon in Vancouver, Washington. Bradley, class of 2012, is now in his sophomore year at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, playing varsity soccer and majoring in Government. They are De La Salle alumni (back, from left) Bradley McNell ’12, still, and always will be, very proud to be Spartans.

Jack McNell ’09; (front, from left) Sam McNell ’08, Rich McNell ’03.

The Barry Brothers Bring Basketball Basics to Boys and Girls.

In the tradition of great instruction at De La Salle, the local girls and boys who came to campus in July for weeklong sessions in Barry Basic Training got instructed by some of the best. Scooter ran the camps, and all three of his NBA veteran brothers offered their wisdom and experience to children eager to learn. The focus was on fun and fundamentals, with Elite Training sessions for more advanced players. Among the guest roundball tutors who came by to help was Sean Farnham‘’96. (For more on Sean, who will emcee the Hall of Fame induction on October 25 and be honored as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, turn to page 36.)

De La Salle alumni (from left) Jon Barry ’87, Brent Barry ’90, Drew Barry ’91, Scooter Barry ’84 taught local kids in the in the De La Salle gym at Barry Basic Training Camp in summer 2014.

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Sports Overview

Baseball

EBAL Champions NCS Champions

Golf

EBAL 2nd place

Lacrosse

EBAL 3rd place NCS Champions

Swimming and Diving EBAL 4th place NCS 7th place

Tennis

EBAL 4th place

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Track and Field

EBAL 2nd place NCS 2nd place NorCal 3rd place MOC CIF State meet 3rd place

Volleyball

EBAL Champions NCS Semifinalist

All-League Honors in East Bay Athletic League

Baseball: First team: Michael McAdoo, Chris Williams, John Velasco; Second team: Justin Hooper; Honorable mention: Henry Alms, Alex Ross, Austin Dondanville. Golf: First team: Josh McCarthy; Second team: Justin Nuval. Lacrosse: First team: Josh Perlite, Doug Strazza; Second team: Cade Bailey, Brett Inglesby, Jake Pense; Honorable mention: Stephen Wilm. Tennis: Second team: Daniel Nomura. Track and Field: Blair Hurlock (1,600 and 3,200 meters); Marquis Morris (110 and 300 meter high hurdles); Khalil McKenzie (shot put). Volleyball: First team: Julian Egoian, Alex Long, Bailey Militar; Second team: Scott Ficken; Honorable mention: Chris Fregosi.

All-East Bay Honors from Bay Area News Group

Baseball: John Velasco first team infield; Justin Hooper second team pitcher; Chris Williams second team infield. Golf: Josh McCarthy first team (the EBAL tournament runner-up and a first-team all-league selection, McCarthy shot a 68 at the NCS Tournament of Champions and a 68 for second place at the NorCal tournament, then shot a 73 at the state tournament to tie for 16th). Lacrosse: Cade Bailey first team attack; Doug Strazza first team middle; Jake Pense second team defense; Johnny Perlite second team goalie. Track and Field: Blair Hurlock first team 3,200 meters; Marquis Morris first team 110 meter and 300 meter hurdles. Volleyball: Julian Egoian, first team.

NCS Scholastic Champions

There are 168 schools in the North Coast Section. In each sport, the varsity teams in each division with the top three Grade Point Averages are named “Scholastic Champions.� In the 2013-2014 school year, three Spartan varsity teams achieved this remarkable honor: The cross country team (3.77 GPA), the water polo team (3.47 GPA), and the tennis team (3.53 GPA). Congratulations, students, coaches, teachers, and parents on this academic achievement.

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HONORS FOR STUDENTS

De La Salle pitcher Justin Hooper, a junior last year, was selected to the Under Armour All-American baseball game played at Wrigley Field in Chicago in August. Spartan swimmers took All-American honors for their Spring 2014 season: In the 200-meter medley relay, Forrest White, Jake Simpson, AD Silva, and Dominic Dalpiaz; in the 400-meter freestyle relay, Forrest White, Jack Madigan, Jake Simpson, and Dominic Dalpiaz; in the 200-meter freestyle, Forrest White; and in the 100-meter backstroke, Forrest White. Senior hurdler Marquis Morris won North Coast Section titles in the 110meter high hurdles and 300-meter intermediate hurdles. In the

HONORS FOR COACHES

Justin Alumbaugh ’98, instructor in English and Social Studies, and Head Varsity Football Coach, was recognized for his first season as Spartans’ head coach by being named by the California Coaches’ Association (CCA) the Northern California Rookie Coach of the Year. Derricke Brown, Associate Athletic Director and Head Varsity Soccer Coach for the past three seasons (after seven years as an assistant coach), took double honors for 2013-2014. He was named Northern California Boys Soccer Coach of the Year by the CCA and North Coast Section Soccer Coach of the Year by Prep2Prep. As sportswriter John Murphy of Prep2Prep reported, “Brown led De La Salle (18-72) to a sixth consecutive section title this season…. As for the Coach of the Year awards he's been realizing from various media outlets. . . Brown called them ‘humbling.’”

The reporter asked the coach about his formula for success: “As far as soccer goes, Brown says player turnover is always difficult, though he's been able to get by. ‘That's just the way high school athletics is,’ Brown said. ‘You always have a few

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state meet on June 7, he won the CIF-State championship in the 300-meter hurdles with the fastest time of the year for a prep runner in California, 36.86. Senior runner Blair Hurlock brought his cross-country-honed skills to the track in spring: In the NCS he ran 4:08.33 in the 1600-meter race, finishing second; in the CIF-State meet, he finished fourth in the 3200 meters in 8:58:85. Blake is attending Stanford, Marquis is at USC. The pair was named De La Salle’s co-Athletes of the Year for 2013-2014. They are shown here (Marquis at left, Blake at right) with their awards and their parents.

pieces of the puzzle back, but it's usually a new group coming in that has to establish an identity and then you go from there.’

Brown has been successful at re-casting his team each year, maintaining a level of success rarely seen in the sport—even for such an athletic juggernaut as DLS. For a program that wins so much, ironically, Brown said winning is not the all-consuming goal of the soccer program, nor any DLS team for that matter.

‘I want the boys to be accountable,’ Brown said. ‘They need to pay attention to detail and focus. We want them to learn the core values and we believe that if they do, they'll be successful.

Winning is just a by-product.’”

Mark Halvorson, the De La Salle Varsity Wrestling Head Coach, was named a volunteer U.S. Greco-Roman World Team Coach for the 2014 World Wrestling Championships in Uzbekistan in September 2014. In addition to many coaching duties and honors, Mark has been head wrestling coach for the Community Youth Center of Concord (CYC) since 1998. For his work as DLS head coach, he has been recognized as the Contra Costa Times Coach of the Year six times.

Spartan Shooting Club Captures State and National Titles.

De La Salle’s Trapshooting Club, made up of DLS and CHS students, had only its fifth season in 2013-2014, but it was a great one. At the State level, the Spartan varsity finished the regular season as Division I Regular Season State Champions and took third place in Division I at the California State Shoot in Stockton on June 14. At the National level, the Spartans won their first U.S. Open title and several other Division I awards in Las Vegas at the U.S. Open Youth Clay Shooting Championships (July 8-12). The four-day event was one day of sporting clays, one day of skeet shooting, and two days of trap competition. Athletes faced off against 100 targets of sporting clays, 200 targets of skeet, and 200 of trap, and were scored on the total number of flying targets they broke.

The main prize that all teams had in their sights was the “Trap Shooting High-Five” award made up of a team’s top five shooters in all categories. The Spartans took this national title with a score of 988. The Trap Club website, with news and

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photos, is delasalletrapclub on Shutterfly. The Spartans’ accomplishments are reported in the Auburn Journal and in Sportstars magazine, both viewable online. The photo shows the High Five Award winners with Shawn Dulohery, head coach of the National Champion Shooting Team from Lindenwood University, Saint Charles, MO. Left to right: Spartan Coach Wade Haley, students Sam Dyer, Emmanuel Rovirosa, and Jeremy Connelly, Coach Dulohery, students Michael Marymee and Bianca Delfabro. (Photo courtesy Frank Balestreri.)

Rugby Team: A Great Season—with Some Coaching from the Pope.

The Rugby team had a season record of 8 wins and 2 losses. They began the season ranked 14th in the nation, and ended it by improving that ranking to 9th, with their last game, in April, being a loss to the team ranked number one in the nation, Jesuit High School of Carmichael. Did we say coaching from the pope? Let’s call it, instead, guidance and inspiration. In late November 2013, the rugby world enjoyed the news that Pope Francis had received in audience the national rugby teams of Argentina and Italy and had spoken as a rugby fan: “Playing rugby is hard,” he said, “It is not a walk in the park! And this, I think, is useful also for tempering character and willpower. In rugby, one runs towards a goal. This word, which is so beautiful and so important, makes us think about life, because all our lives lead towards a goal. This search is tiring, and requires commitment and struggle, but the important thing is not to run alone. To arrive at the goal we need to run together, the ball is passed from hand to hand, and we advance together, until we reach the goal.

And then we celebrate!”

The pontiff then added, “Perhaps this interpretation of mine is not very technical, but it is how a bishop sees rugby! And as a bishop I hope that you will be able to put all of this in practice, also off-pitch, in your lives.”

To kick off their upcoming season in January 2014, the De La Salle coaches and team wrote to Pope Francis, thanking him for his inspiring words. Their packet to the pope included a Spartan rugby jacket and photos from their dedicatory prayer service around the cross in the Court, with school chaplain Fr. LaSalle Hallissey OP, ’69.

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De La Salle High School was able to hold a special pre-release Benefit Premiere on August 17 to help fund scholarships. Before each showing, Spartan football team members led the audience in prayer.

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An Evening of Honor: Alumnus of the Year and Athletic Hall of Fame

Open House for Prospective Students Father/ Son Retreat Theatre Arts Fall Show – Alumni Night Alumni Soccer Game Alumni Lacrosse Game Class of 2009 Five-Year Reunion Chris Vontoure Basketball Classic Alumni Basketball Game Band and Choir Christmas Concert Crab Feed Parent/Son Retreat FETE Spring Auction Wine and Food: A Taste of De La Salle Dads and Grads Barbecue Brother Maris Golf Tournament Baccalaureate Mass and Reception Graduation, Class of 2015 Class Reunions 2010, 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, 1985, 1980, 1975, 1970

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